Gateway E-9425R, User Manual

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CHAPTER 4: Installing Components www.gateway.com
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Removing and installing a hard drive
Important
Gateway tests and verifies the operation
and compatibility of the drives it sells.
Especially in a hot-swap or
mission-critical environment, additional
or replacement drives must conform to
Gateway standards.
Use this procedure to add or replace a hard drive in a hot-swap bay. Your server
supports as many as four 1-inch high, 3.5-inch hot-swap SATA and SATA II hard
drives or four 1-inch high, 3.5-inch hot-swap SAS hard drives. You can purchase
additional drives through your Gateway Sales or Customer Care representative.
To remove and install a hot-swap hard drive:
Caution
Before you remove a failed drive, use the
appropriate software and utilities
installed on the server to stop all activity
on the failed drive. Instructions for using
the software are provided by the
software manufacturer. Failure to do so
may destroy the data on the drive.
1
Unlock the bezel (if necessary) and remove it by pulling it from the chassis.
2
Put your finger in the drive release lever and pull out. The drive release
lever opens.
3
Pull the drive carrier straight out of the server.
4
If you are replacing a hard drive, remove the four screws from the bottom
of the drive tray that secure the old hard drive to the tray, then remove
the drive from the tray.
5
Using the four screws you removed, install the new hard drive into the
drive tray.
6
Make sure that the tray’s release lever is open, then slide the new drive
fully into the empty hot-swap drive bay.