Mechanical Installation
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Removing a Hard Disk Drive from a 3.5” Hard Drive Carrier
Figure 24: Remove HD
If one HDD physically fails, the appliance keeps working thanks to RAID mirroring. You can
pull out and replace a faulty drive with a new blank HDD, the blank HDD will get synchronized
with the other HDD, this takes up to 48 hours but does not interrupt with appliance operation.
1. Power down the appliance before removing the HDD.
2. Remove the HDD by pressing the latch button and opening the lever.
3. Slide the HDD out.
4. Slide the replacement HDD in the slot. Continue to push in the HDD in until the latch starts to
close. This replacement drive is a blank HDD.
5. Close the latch.
6. Power on the appliance.
Never pull out a working hard drive while the appliance is turned on. You can safely pull
out a faulty hard drive indicated by a solid amber light.
Latch
