Lenovo 9213, 9212 manual Installing internal drives, Drive specifications

Installing internal drives

This section provides information and instructions for installing and removing internal drives. Internal drives are devices that your computer uses to read and store data. You can add drives to your computer to increase storage capacity and to enable your computer to read other types of media. Some of the different drives that are available for your computer are:

vParallel ATA hard disk drives

vSerial ATA hard disk drives

vOptical drives such as CD, CD-RW, and DVD drives

vRemovable media drives

Note: These different drives are also referred to as integrated drive electronics (IDE) drives.

Internal drives are installed in bays. In this book, the bays are referred to as bay 1, bay 2, and so on.

When you install an internal drive, it is important to note what type and size of drive that you can install in each bay. Also, it is important to correctly connect the internal drive cables to the installed drive.

Drive specifications

Your computer comes with the following factory-installed drives:

vAn optical drive in bay 1 (some models)

vA 3.5-inch diskette disk drive in bay 4

vA 3.5-inch hard drive in bay 5

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