Dell R410 owner manual Hard Drives, Removing a Drive Blank

Hard Drives

Your system supports up to four 3.5-inch (SAS or SATA) or 2.5-inch (SAS, SATA, or SSD) hard drives in 3.5-inch hot-swap hard drive carrier or cabled internal drives. Depending on your chassis, the hard drives are installed internally or at the front of the system (see Figure 3-1). Internal hard drives are connected to the system board or an optional controller card. 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.

1Remove the front bezel. See "Removing and Replacing the Optional Front Bezel" on page 81.

2Grasp 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

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1 hard-drive blank 2 release lever

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Installing System Components