Removing a drive blank............................................................................................................................................. 75

Installing a drive blank................................................................................................................................................76

Removing a drive carrier............................................................................................................................................77

Installing a drive carrier..............................................................................................................................................78

Removing the drive from the drive carrier..............................................................................................................79

Installing a drive into the drive carrier..................................................................................................................... 80

Removing a 2.5-inch drive from a 3.5-inch drive adapter..................................................................................... 81

Installing a 2.5-inch drive into a 3.5-inch drive adapter.........................................................................................82

Removing a 3.5-inch drive adapter from a 3.5-inch drive carrier........................................................................ 83

Installing a 3.5-inch drive adapter into the 3.5-inch drive carrier.........................................................................84

Optical drives and tape drives........................................................................................................................................ 85

Removing the optical or tape drive blank............................................................................................................... 85

Installing the optical or tape drive blank..................................................................................................................86

Removing the optical drive cage or tape drive.......................................................................................................87

Installing the optical drive cage or tape drive.........................................................................................................88

Cabled drives.................................................................................................................................................................... 89

Removing the internal hard drive bay......................................................................................................................89

Installing the internal hard drive bay........................................................................................................................ 90

Removing a cabled drive............................................................................................................................................91

Installing a cabled drive............................................................................................................................................. 92

Drive backplane................................................................................................................................................................ 93

Drive backplane guidelines........................................................................................................................................93

Backplane cable routing............................................................................................................................................ 96

Removing a hard drive backplane............................................................................................................................ 99

Installing a hard drive backplane.............................................................................................................................100

System memory.............................................................................................................................................................. 101

System memory guidelines ..................................................................................................................................... 101

General memory module installation guidelines.................................................................................................... 103

Mode-specific guidelines......................................................................................................................................... 104

Removing a memory module.................................................................................................................................. 106

Installing a memory module..................................................................................................................................... 107

Cooling fans.................................................................................................................................................................... 108

Removing the internal cooling fan..........................................................................................................................108

Installing the internal cooling fan............................................................................................................................ 109

Removing the external cooling fan ........................................................................................................................ 110

Installing the external cooling fan............................................................................................................................ 110

Optional internal USB memory key................................................................................................................................ 111

Replacing the optional internal USB memory key.................................................................................................. 111

Expansion card holder..................................................................................................................................................... 111

Removing the expansion card holder...................................................................................................................... 111

Installing the expansion card holder........................................................................................................................ 112

Expansion cards...............................................................................................................................................................113

Expansion card installation guidelines..................................................................................................................... 113

GPU card installation guidelines.............................................................................................................................. 113

Removing a expansion card..................................................................................................................................... 114

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