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Installing Additional Drives

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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 ENWW Installing Additional Drives 15

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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
ENWW
Installing Additional Drives
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