Hard Drives; Removing A Hard-Drive Blank - Dell PowerEdge T310 Hardware Owner's Manual

6 Place the system upright on a flat surface.
7 Reattach any peripherals and connect the system to an electrical outlet.
8 Turn on the system and attached peripherals.

Hard Drives

Your system supports up to four internal hot-swap 3.5-inch SAS or SATA
hard drives, or 2.5-inch internal hot-swap SAS or SSD hard drives in 3.5-inch
hot-swap hard-drive carrier. It also supports up to four 3.5-inch cabled SAS
or SATA internal hard drives. Depending on your chassis, the hard drives
are installed internally (see Figure 3-10) or at the front of the system
(see Figure 3-8).
Internal hard drives are connected to the system board or an optional
controller card. Front-mounted hard drives are connected to a SAS backplane
through hard-drive carriers and can be configured as hot-swappable.
CAUTION:
running, see the documentation for the SAS controller card to ensure that the host
adapter is configured correctly to support hot-swap drive removal and insertion.
CAUTION:
formatted. Doing so can cause a drive failure.
NOTE:
SAS/SATA backplane board.
NOTE:
be completed. Be aware that high-capacity hard drives can take a number of
hours to format.

Removing a Hard-Drive Blank

CAUTION:
have-drive blanks installed.
1 Remove the front bezel. See "Removing the Front Bezel" on page 81.
2 Grasp the front of the hard-drive blank, press the release handle and
slide the blank out until it is free of the drive bay. See Figure 3-7.
3 Slide the drive blank out until it is free of the drive bay.
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Before attempting to remove or install a drive while the system is
Do not turn off or reboot your system while the drive is being
Use only drives that have been tested and approved for use with the
When you format a hard drive, allow enough time for the formatting to
To maintain proper system cooling, all empty hard-drive bays must
Installing System Components
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