Optical Drives And Tape Drives; Removing The Optical Or Tape Drive Blank - Dell EMC PowerEdge T640 Installation And Service Manual

Figure 47. Installing a NVMe drive bay or flex bay
Next steps
1 Install the backplane to the NVMe drive bay or flex bay.
2 Connect the slim optical drive and the back plane cables.
3 Follow the procedure listed in
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Optical drives and tape drives

Your system supports one of the following configurations:
Table 33. System configurations
System
Eight 3.5 inch drives or sixteen 2.5 inch drives
Sixteen 2.5 inch drives and eight NVMe drives
Systems with up to eighteen 3.5 inch drives
Systems with up to thirty-two 2.5 inch drives

Removing the optical or tape drive blank

Prerequisites
1 Follow the safety guidelines listed in
2 Follow the procedure listed in
102 Installing and removing system components
After working inside your system.
Safety instructions.
Before working inside your
Configurations
Up to two SATA slim optical drives and one SAS tape drive
One SATA slim optical drive
One SATA slim optical drive or one SAS tape drive
One SATA slim optical drive
system.