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 labeled SATA0.

Connect the first SATA optical drive to the white SATA connector on the system board labeled SATA1.

Always populate the dark blue SATA0 and white SATA1 connectors before the light blue SATA2 and orange SATA3 connectors.

Connect a second SATA optical drive to the orange SATA3 connector.

Connect additional SATA hard drives to the next available (unpopulated) SATA connector on the system board in the following order: SATA0, SATA1, SATA3, SATA2.

Connect a diskette drive to the connector labeled FLOPPY.

Connect a media card reader to the USB connector labeled F_USB2.

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

You may install either a third-height or a half-height drive into a half-height bay.

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.

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