Dell M630 Hard drives/SSDs, Hard-drive/SSD bay numbering, Hard drive/SSD installation guidelines

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Installing the cooling shroud

Hard drives/SSDs

Your system supports up to two 2.5 inch SAS/SATA/PCIe SSDs or SAS /SATA hard drives and four 1.8 inch SATA SSDs. The hard drives/SSDs are supplied in special hot-swappable drive carriers that fit in the drive bays and these drives connect to the system board through the hard-drive backplane board.

NOTE: Mixing of SSD/SAS/SATA hard drives is not supported.

Hard-drive/SSD bay numbering

Figure 24. Hard-drive/SSD bay numbering — 2.5 inch hard-drive/SSD system

Figure 25. SSD bay numbering — 1.8 inch SSD system

Hard drive/SSD installation guidelines

For single hard drive configuration, a hard-drive blank must be installed in the other drive bay to maintain proper cooling airflow.

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