Figure 19. Installing air shroud
Next step
1
Follow the procedure listed in
Drives
Your system supports 2.5-inch SAS/SATA SSD, NVMe drives and PCIe SSDs. The drives or SSDs are supplied in a hot-swappable drive
carriers that fit in the drive bays and these drives connect to the system board through the drive backplane.
CAUTION:
Before attempting to remove or install a drive while the system is running, see the documentation to ensure that the
host adapter is configured correctly to support hot-swap drive removal and insertion.
CAUTION:
Do not turn off or restart your system while the drive is being formatted. Doing so can cause a drive failure.
When you format a drive, allow enough time for the formatting to be complete. The high-capacity drives can take a long time to format.
Removing drive blank
Prerequisites
1
Follow the safety guidelines listed in
CAUTION:
Mixing drive blanks from previous generations of PowerEdge servers is not supported
CAUTION:
To maintain proper system cooling, all empty drive slots must have drive blanks installed.
Step
Press the release button and slide the drive blank out of the drive slot.
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