Removing A Hot-Swap Hard Disk Drive - Lenovo System x3250 M4 Installation And Service Manual

Hard disk
drive assembly
Step 5. Reinstall the drive bay filler panel that you removed earlier.
Step 6. If you are installing additional simple-swap hard disk drives, do so now.
If you have replaced a server component or installed an optional device in the server, you need to reconnect
the power cords and all external cables, and turn on the server and peripheral devices.

Removing a hot-swap hard disk drive

Use this information to remove a hot-swap hard disk drive.
Attention:
• To avoid damage to the hard disk drive connectors, make sure that the server cover is in place and fully
closed whenever you install or remove a hard disk drive.
• To make sure that there is adequate system cooling, do not operate the server for more than 2 minutes
without either a hard disk drive or a filler panel installed in each bay.
• Before you make changes to disk drives, disk drive controllers (including controllers that are integrated
on the system board), disk drive backplanes, or disk drive cables, back up all important data that is
stored on hard disks.
• Before you remove any component of a RAID array, back up all RAID configuration information.
Read the safety information in "Safety" on page v and "Installation guidelines" on page 33.
To remove a hot-swap hard disk drive, complete the following steps.
Attention: To avoid damage to the hard disk drive connectors, make sure that the server top cover is in
place and fully closed whenever you install or remove a hard disk drive.
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Filler panel