Owners Manual

84 Installing System Components
Hard Drives
Your system supports up to four 3.5-inch (SAS or SATA) hard drives in
3.5-inch hot-swap hard drive carrier. The hard drives are installed at the front
of the system (see Figure 3-1). Front-mounted hard drives are connected to a
SAS backplane through hard-drive carriers and can be configured as
hot-swappable.
Removing a Drive Blank
CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, all empty hard-drive bays must
have drive blanks installed.
1 Remove the front bezel. See "Removing and Replacing the Optional
Front Bezel" on page 81.
2 Grasp the front of the hard-drive blank, press the release lever on the
right side, and slide the blank out until it is free of the drive bay.
See Figure 3-4.
Figure 3-4. Removing or Installing a Hard-Drive Blank
1 hard-drive blank 2 release lever
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