Installing A Hot-Swap Physical Drive; Removing A Physical Drive From A Physical-Drive Carrier - Dell EMC PowerVault MD3820i Owner's Manual
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Figure 11. Removing and Installing a Hot-Swap Physical Drive
1. release button
2. physical drive
3. physical-drive carrier handle
Installing a Hot-Swap Physical Drive
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.
CAUTION:
Use only physical drives that have been tested and approved for use with the physical-drive
backplane.
CAUTION:
Combining SAS and SATA physical drives in the same RAID volume is not supported.
CAUTION:
When installing a physical drive, ensure that the adjacent drives are fully installed. Inserting a
physical-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.
1. If a physical-drive blank is installed in the physical-drive slot, remove it.
2. Install a physical drive in the physical-drive carrier.
3. Press the release button on the front of the physical-drive carrier and open the physical-drive carrier handle.
4. Insert the physical-drive carrier into the physical-drive slot until the carrier connects with the backplane.
5. Close the physical-drive carrier handle to lock the physical drive in place.
Removing a Physical Drive From a Physical-Drive Carrier
1. Remove the screws from the slide rails on the physical-drive carrier.
2. Lift the physical drive out of the physical-drive carrier.
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