Acer G540 Series manual To install an easy-swap hard drive

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To install an easy-swap hard drive:

1Remove the side panel from the chassis. Go to page 39 for instructions.

2Observe steps 2 through 5 of the previous section.

3Connect the easy-swap HDD cables.

(1)Connect the power connectors of the SAS/SATA2 cable to the power supply module HDD power cables.

(2)Connect the data connectors of the SAS/SATA2 cable to the signal connectors of the of the easy-swap HDDs.

(3)Connect the other end of the SAS/SATA2 power cable to the SAS1-1 connector of the SAS controller board.

4Observe the post-installation instructions described on page 38.

5Set up the new hard drive’s RAID configuration.

For related instructions, go to the “RAID configuration utilities” section on page 114.