Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T640 Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T640 overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Optional front bezel
- System feet
- Caster wheels – optional
- Drives
- Removing a drive blank
- Installing a drive blank
- Removing a drive carrier
- Installing a drive carrier
- Removing the drive from the drive carrier
- Installing a drive into the drive carrier
- Removing a 3.5 inch drive adapter from a 3.5 inch drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5 inch drive adapter into the 3.5 inch drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5 inch drive from a 3.5 inch drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5 inch drive into a 3.5 inch drive adapter
- Power supply units
- System cover
- Inside the system
- Air shroud
- Cooling fans
- Cooling fan (middle fan) assembly
- Flex bays
- Optical drives and tape drives
- NVDIMM-N battery
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- Expansion card holder
- GPU card holder (optional)
- Expansion cards
- Optional GPU card
- NVLink bridge
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional MicroSD or vFlash card
- Optional IDSDM or vFlash module
- Backplane
- Backplane cabling
- Integrated storage controller card
- System battery
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Control panel assembly
- Trusted Platform Module
- System board
- Power interposer boards
- Converting the system from tower mode to rack mode
- System diagnostics
- Getting help
Figure 56. Removing the optical drive cage or tape drive
Next steps
1. Install the optical drive cage or tape drive.
Installing the optical drive cage or tape drive
Prerequisites
NOTE: The procedure to install the optical drive cage is the same as installing the tape drive.
Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions on page 27.
Steps
1. Unpack and prepare the drive for installation.
For instructions, see the documentation that shipped with the drive.
If you are installing a SAS tape drive, you must have an internal tape adapter installed. For more information on installing a
SAS tape drive, see the Installing an expansion card on page 93 section.
2. If applicable, remove the existing drive or the drive blank.
3. Align the guide on the drive with the slot on drive bay.
4. Slide the drive into the slot until the latch clicks into place.
5. Connect the power and data cable to the drive.
6. Connect the power and data cables to the backplane and the system board.
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Installing and removing system components