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Installing and removing drives

Removing and installing a hard drive

Important

Gateway tests and verifies the operation and compatibility of the drives it sells.

Especially in a hot-swap or mission-critical environment, additional or replacement drives must conform to Gateway standards.

Use this procedure to add or replace a hard drive in a hot-swap bay. Your server supports as many as six 1-inch high, 3.5-inch hot-swap SATA and SATA II hard drives or six1-inch high, 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS hard drives. You can purchase additional drives through your Gateway Sales or Customer Care representative.

Caution

Before you remove a failed drive, use the appropriate software and utilities installed on the server to stop all activity on the failed drive. Instructions for using the software are provided by the software manufacturer. Failure to do so may destroy the data on the drive.

To remove and install a hot-swap hard drive:

1Unlock the bezel (if necessary) and remove it by pulling it from the chassis.

2Put your finger in the drive release lever and pull out. The drive release lever opens.

3Pull the drive carrier straight out of the server.

4If you are replacing a hard drive, remove the four screws that secure the old hard drive to the drive tray, then remove the drive from the tray.

5Using the four screws you removed, install the new hard drive into the drive tray.

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