Front Drive Installation; Figure 37. 2.5" Drive Bay Components - Intel M50FCP1UR Manual

Intel® Server System M50FCP1UR System Integration and Service Guide
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Front Drive Installation

The Intel® Server System M50FCP1UR has front drive bays that only support 2.5" SSDs. Supported SSDs can
have a drive height of 7mm or 15mm. 7mm must be attached to a supplied drive mounting bracket to be
compatible with the front drive bays.
All drives are mounted to a tool-less, non-detachable, drive rail. Drives interface with a backplane that is
mounted to the back side of the front drive bay. Data I/O cables are attached between the backplane and
various storage controller options within the system. The front drives are hot swap capable with supported
redundant RAID configurations.
This section provides procedures for drive blank removal, 7mm SSD assembly, and drive installation into the
drive bay.
Required Tools and Supplies
Anti-static wrist strap and conductive workbench pad (recommended)
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2.5" Drive Bay
The following figure identifies the 2.5" drive bay components.
Note: To ensure proper system airflow requirements, all front drive bays must be populated with either a
drive or supplied drive blank.
All drive bays included an integrated drive rail that is used to mount an SSD to. The integrated drive rail does
not fully remove from the drive bay. When the drive extraction lever is in the open position, it is used to pull
out the rail just enough to allow an SSD to be installed or removed from the rail.
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Figure 37. 2.5" Drive Bay Components