Locating Internal Drives - Lenovo ThinkCentre E73 Hardware Maintenance Manual

Locating internal drives

Internal drives are devices that your computer uses to read and store data. You can add drives to your
computer to increase storage capacity and enable your computer to read other types of media. Internal
drives are installed in bays. In this manual, the bays are referred to as bay 1, bay 2, and so on.
When installing or replacing an internal drive, it is important to note the type and size of the drive that you
can install or replace in each bay and correctly connect the cables to the drive installed. Refer to the
appropriate section in "Installing or replacing hardware" on page 125 for instructions on how to install or
replace internal drives for your computer.
Figure 10 "Drive bay locations" on page 80 shows the locations of the drive bays.
Figure 10. Drive bay locations
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Bay 1 - Secondary hard disk drive bay (with a SATA solid-state drive or a hybrid hard disk drive installed in
some models)
2
Bay 2 - Optical drive bay (with an optical drive installed in some models)
3
Bay 3 - Slim card reader drive bay (with a slim card reader installed in some models)
4
Bay 4 - Hard disk drive bay (with a 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA hard disk drive installed)
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