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Installing Additional Drives, Extra Drive Retainer Screws Location

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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 labeled SATA1. ● Connect the first SATA optical drive to the white SATA connector on the system board labeled SATA2. ● Connect a second SATA optical drive to the orange SATA4 connector. ● Connect a second SATA hard drive to the light blue SATA3 connector. ● Connect a media card reader to the USB connector labeled JUSB2. ● 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 M3 metric guide screws (1) are black. The HPsupplied 6-32 standard screws (2) are silver. Figure 7-15 Extra Drive Retainer Screws Location Drives 43

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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 labeled SATA1.
●
Connect the first SATA optical drive to the white SATA connector on the system board labeled
SATA2.
●
Connect a second SATA optical drive to the orange SATA4 connector.
●
Connect a second SATA hard drive to the light blue SATA3 connector.
●
Connect a media card reader to the USB connector labeled JUSB2.
●
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 M3 metric guide screws
(1)
are black. The HP-
supplied 6-32 standard screws
(2)
are silver.
Figure 7-15
Extra Drive Retainer Screws Location
Drives
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