Dell PowerEdge R415 Hardware Owner's Manual - Page 84
Hard Drives, Removing a Hard-Drive Blank
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Hard Drives Your system supports up to four 3.5-inch (SAS or SATA) or 2.5-inch (SAS, SATA, or SSD) hard drives in 3.5-inch hot-swap hard-drive carrier or cabled internal drives. Depending on your chassis, the hard drives are installed internally or at the front of the system (see Figure 3-1). Internal hard drives are connected to the system board or an optional controller card. Front-mounted hard drives are connected to a SAS backplane through hard-drive carriers and can be configured as hot-swappable. CAUTION: Before attempting to remove or install a drive while the system is running, see the documentation for the SAS controller card to ensure that the host adapter is configured correctly to support hot-swap drive removal and installation. CAUTION: Do not turn off or reboot your system while the drive is being formatted. Doing so can cause a drive failure. NOTE: Use only drives that have been tested and approved for use with the SAS/SATA backplane board. When you format a hard drive, allow enough time for the formatting to be completed. Be aware that high-capacity hard drives can take a number of hours to format. Removing a Hard-Drive Blank CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, all empty hard-drive bays must have drive blanks installed. 1 If applicable, remove the front bezel. See "Removing the Front Bezel" on page 81. 2 Grasp the front of the hard-drive blank, press the release lever on the right side, and slide the blank out until it is free of the drive bay. See Figure 3-4. 84 Installing System Components