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Before working inside your system
After working inside your system
Installing the expansion card riser
Safety instructions
Hard drive backplane
The hard drive backplane supports four 3.5-inch hot swappable hard drives.
Removing the hard drive backplane
Prerequisites
CAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by a certified service technician. You should only
perform troubleshooting and simple repairs as authorized in your product documentation, or as
directed by the online or telephone service and support team. Damage due to servicing that is
not authorized by Dell is not covered by your warranty. Read and follow the safety instructions
that are shipped with your product.
CAUTION: To prevent damage to the drives and backplane, you must remove the hard drives
from the system before removing the backplane.
CAUTION: You must note the number of each hard drive and temporarily label them before
removal so that you can replace them in the same locations.
1.
Follow the safety guidelines listed in safety instructions section.
2.
Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system section.
3.
Remove all the hard drives.
4.
Disconnect the SAS data, signal, and power cable(s) from the backplane.
Steps
Press the release tabs and lift the hard drive backplane out of the chassis.
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