NEC 320Lb-R manual Removing a Hard Disk Drive

Removing a Hard Disk Drive

1.Observe the safety and ESD precautions listed at the beginning of this chapter.

2.Unlock and open the front door on the tower cabinet or front covers on the rack-mount system. See Opening and Closing the Front Door of the Tower Cabinet earlier in this chapter or Removing and Installing the Front Covers of the Rack-Mount System earlier in this chapter.

3.Determine which hard disk drive bay slot contains the hard drive you want to remove.

4.Grasp the handle of the hard disk’s carrier and unlock the lever located at the bottom of the carrier handle, see Figure 4-35. The hard disk carrier will come out approximately 1/2-inch so that its handle is fully accessible in order to pull the carrier the rest of the way out of the bay.

Note: After the drive is disconnected from its backplane wait approximately 10 seconds for the drive to spin down before removing it from the storage bay.

Figure 4-35. Removing a Hard Disk Drive

5.Remove the hard disk drive and place it in an antistatic wrapper.

6.If another hard disk drive is not going to be installed into the vacant slot then a dummy drive carrier must be. This will ensure proper system cooling.

7.Close and lock the front door on the tower cabinet or front covers on the rack-mount system. See Opening and Closing the Front Door of the Tower Cabinet earlier in this chapter or Removing and Installing the Front Covers of the Rack-Mount System earlier in this chapter.

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