Installing Additional Drives

When installing additional drives, follow these guidelines:

●The primary Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive must be connected to the dark blue primary SATA connector on the system board.

●Connect a secondary Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive to the white SATA connector on the system board.

●Connect the first SATA optical drive to the light blue SATA connector on the system board.

●Connect a second SATA optical drive to the orange SATA connector on the system board.

●The system does not support Parallel ATA (PATA) optical drives or PATA hard drives.

●If needed, HP has provided extra drive retainer screws on the interior of the front bezel that are used to secure the drives in the drive cage. Hard drives use 6-32 standard screws. All other drives use M3 metric screws. The HP-supplied 6-32 standard screws (1) are silver. The HP-supplied M3 metric guide screws (2) are black.

Figure 14 Extra Drive Retainer Screws Location

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