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Remove a hot-swap drive
Use this information to remove a hot-swap drive.
About this task
Attention:
• Read the following section(s) to ensure that you work safely.
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"Safety" on page iii
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"Installation Guidelines" on page 51
• To avoid damage to the drive connectors, make sure that the server top cover is in place and fully closed
whenever you install or remove a simple-swap drive.
• For proper system cooling, do not operate the server for more than 2 minutes without either a drive or a
filler panel installed in each bay.
• Before you remove or make changes to drives, drive controllers (including controllers that are integrated
on the system board), drive backplanes or drive cables, back up all important data that is stored on drives.
• Before you remove any component of a RAID array, back up all RAID configuration information.
Note: Make sure you have the drive bay fillers available if some drive bays will be left empty after the
removal.
Watch the procedure
A video of this procedure is available at YouTube:
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Procedure
Step 1.
Remove the hot-swap drive.
Note: Install a drive bay filler or replacement drive as soon as possible. See
drive" on page
Figure 59. 2.5-inch hot-swap drive removal
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