Installing A Hot-Swappable Hard Drive Carrier - Dell DSS 2500 Owner's Manual

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Installing a hot-swappable hard drive carrier

Prerequisites

CAUTION:

Many repairs may only be done by a certified service technician. You should only perform troubleshooting and simple

repairs as authorized in your product documentation, or as directed by the online or telephone service and support team.

Damage due to servicing that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by your warranty. Read and follow the safety instructions

that are shipped with your product.

CAUTION:

Use only hard drives that have been tested and approved for use with the hard drive backplane.

CAUTION:

Combining SAS and SATA hard drives in the same RAID volume is not supported.

CAUTION:

When installing a hard drive, ensure that the adjacent drives are fully installed. Inserting a hard drive carrier and

attempting to lock its handle next to a partially installed carrier can damage the partially installed carrier's shield spring and make

it unusable.

CAUTION:

To prevent data loss, ensure that your operating system supports hot-swap drive installation. See the documentation

supplied with your operating system.

CAUTION:

When a replacement hot swappable drive is installed and the system is powered on, the drive automatically begins to

rebuild. Ensure that the replacement drive is blank or contains data that you wish to overwrite. Any data on the replacement

drive is immediately lost after the drive is installed.

Steps

If a hard drive blank is installed in the hard drive slot, remove it.

Install a hard drive in the hard drive carrier.

Press the release button on the front of the hard drive carrier and open the hard drive carrier handle.

Insert the hard drive carrier into the hard drive slot until the carrier comes in contact with the backplane.

Close the hard drive carrier handle to lock the hard drive in place.

Figure 21. Installing a hot-swappable hard drive carrier

release button

hard drive carrier handle

Installing and removing system components

hard drive carrier

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