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9. Install drives or drive blanks.
10. Install the secondary rear wall or a secondary riser cage.
11. Cable the drive backplane .
12. Install the access panel .
13. Slide the server into the rack.
14. Connect each power cord to the server.
15. Connect each power cord to the power source.
16. Power up the server .
Hard drives Hard drives
Subtopics Subtopics
Drive guidelines Drive guidelines
Installing a hot-plug LFF/SFF SAS, SATA or NVMe drive Installing a hot-plug LFF/SFF SAS, SATA or NVMe drive
Drive guidelines Drive guidelines
Observe the following general guidelines:
The system automatically sets all drive numbers.
If only one hard drive is used, install it in the bay with the lowest drive number.
For drive numbering, see Drive bay numbering.
The NVMe SSD is a PCIe bus device. Devices attached to a PCIe bus cannot be removed without allowing the device and bus to complete
and cease the signal/traffic flow.
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