Installing The Hard Drive Backplane - Dell EMC VxRail P470 Owner's Manual

Installing the hard drive backplane

Prerequisites
1 Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions section.
2 Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your appliance section.
CAUTION: To prevent damage to the control panel flex cable, do not bend the control panel flex cable after it is inserted into the
connector.
Steps
1 Use the hooks on the chassis as guides to align the hard drive backplane.
2 Lower the hard drive backplane until the release tabs snap into place.
3 Connect the SAS /SATA SSD data, signal, and power cable(s) to the backplane.
Figure 67. Installing the 2.5 inch (x16) SAS backplane
1 hard drive backplane assembly
3 backplane power cable
5 SAS cable (2)
Next steps
1 Replace the cooling fan assembly.
2 Replace the cooling shroud.
3 Install the hard drives in their original locations.
4 Follow the procedure listed in the After working inside your appliance section.
112 Installing and removing components
2 backplane signal cable
4 release tab (2)
6 mini SAS connector (2)