Dell R610 owner manual Hard Drives, Removing a Drive Blank

Hard Drives

Your system supports up to six 2.5-inch SAS, SATA, or SSD hard drives. See Figure 3-1.

•Mixed hard-drive configurations of SAS and SATA drives are allowed. In this configuration, two SAS drives must be installed in hard-drive slots 0 and 1 only. The remaining slots can have SATA drives installed.

•SSD hard-drive configurations require an integrated PERC storage controller, and all drives must be SSD drives.

All hard drives are installed at the front of the system and connect to the system board through the SAS backplane board. Hard drives are supplied in special hot-swappable drive carriers that fit in the hard-drive bays.

CAUTION: Before attempting to remove or install a drive while the system is running, see the documentation for the integrated storage controller card to ensure that the host adapter is configured correctly to support hot-swap drive removal and insertion.

CAUTION: Do not turn off or reboot your system while the drive is being formatted. Doing so can cause a drive failure.

NOTE: Use only drives that have been tested and approved for use with the SAS backplane board.

When you format a hard drive, allow enough time for the formatting to be completed. Be aware that high-capacityhard drives can take a number of hours to format.

Removing a Drive Blank

NOTE: 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."

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.

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