Installing A Hard Drive Carrier Into The Hard Drive Tray - Dell EMC PowerEdge R730xd Owner's Manual

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Safety instructions on page 67

Installing a hard drive carrier into the hard drive tray

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.
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions section.
2. Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system.
CAUTION: Use only hard drives that have been tested and approved for use with the hard drive backplane.
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
1. Lift the hard carrier handle.
2. If a hard drive blank is installed in the hard drive slot, remove it.
3. Insert the hard drive carrier into the hard drive tray.
4. Lower the hard drive carrier handle to engage the hard drive to the connector on the backplane and lock the hard drive in
place.
Figure 28. Installing a hard drive carrier into the hard drive tray
a. release tab on the hard drive tray
b. hard drive carrier handle
c. hard drive carrier
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