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Chapter 4 Mobile Rack Installation Instructions
4-8 Hard Drive Installation
Each mobile rack includes dummy drives that act as place holders for hard drives.
Before using the mobile rack, you must install hard drives into the drive carriers.
Hard drives are sold separately.
Installing Hard Drives into the Mobile Rack
1. Power down the system supporting the mobile rack as described in Section
4-6.
2. Press the release tabs to open the hard drive carrier latch.
3. Using the latch as a handle, pull the drive carrier from the hard drive.
4. Place a 2.5" hard drive in the hard drive carrier.
Release Tab
Hard Drive Carrier
Handle
Figure 4-2. Mobile Rack with Hard Drive Carriers
Warning!
Enterprise level hard disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro
chassis and servers. For information on recommended HDDs, visit the Supermicro
website at www.supermicro.com
