Four-Slot Hard Drive Blank; Removing A Four-Slot Hard Drive Blank - Dell poweredge T430 Owner's Manual

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Safety instructions
Before working inside your system
Removing the hard drive backplane
Installing a hot swappable hard drive carrier
After working inside your system

Four-slot hard drive blank

Systems with x8 hard drive backplanes configured for software RAID support only four hard drives. The
remaining hard drive slots are pre-installed with the four-slot hard drive blank, and are not available for
software RAID.

Removing a four-slot hard drive blank

Prerequisites
CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, all empty hard drive slots must have hard drive
blanks installed.
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions section.
2. Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system section.
CAUTION: To prevent damage to the hard drives and backplane, you must remove the hard
drives from the system before removing the backplane.
CAUTION: Note the slot number of each hard drive and temporarily label the slots before
removing the hard drives so that you can replace them in the same location(s).
3. Remove the cooling shroud.
4. Remove all hard drives.
5. Remove the x8 hard drive backplane.
Steps
1. Using a screwdriver, push the release tabs on the corners of the blank from inside the system, to
unlock the four-slot hard drive blank from the chassis.
2. From the front of the system, pull the four-slot hard drive blank at the corners until it is free of the
hard drive slot.
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