Dell T605, DR715 owner manual Installing a Hard Drive in a Drive Bracket Hard drive

Figure 3-10. Installing a Hard Drive in a Drive Bracket

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NOTICE: SAS drives and SATA drives cannot be mixed in the system. The drives must be either SATA or SAS hard drives.

NOTE: The SAS or SAS/RAID controller card must be installed in PCIe SLOT2. See Figure 6-1.

8Connect the power cable to the hard drive.

9Connect the data cable to the hard drive:

•For connection to the integrated SATA controller (SATA hard drives only), connect the SATA data cable to the SATA_A (first drive) and SATA_B (second drive) connectors on the system board. See Figure 3-11. See Figure 6-1 for the location of the hard drive connectors on the system board.

•For connection to a SAS or SAS/RAID controller expansion card (SAS or SATA hard drives), connect the data cables from the controller card and the power cables as shown in Figure 3-12. See "Installing a SAS Controller Card" on page 111 for instructions about installing the card.

Installing System Components

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