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Hardware Installations and Upgrades
Figure 23. Attaching a hot-swap hard disk drive to a drive carrier
9. With the black lever in the fully open position, slide the drive assembly into the chassis. The
green latch at the front of the drive carrier must be to the right. Do not push on the black drive
carrier lever until the lever begins to close by itself.
10. When the black drive carrier lever begins to close by itself, push on it to lock the drive
assembly into place.
Removing a Hot-swap Hard Disk Drive
1. Remove the front bezel if it is installed.
2. Press in on the green latch at the front of the hard drive carrier.
3. Pull out on the black lever to slide the carrier from the chassis.
4. Remove the four screws that attach the hard drive to the drive carrier. Lift the drive from the
carrier. Store the drive in an anti-static bag.
5. If you are not installing a new drive, place the plastic retention device into the drive carrier,
using the four screws you removed from the hard drive.
6. With the black lever in the fully open position, slide the drive carrier into the chassis. The green
latch must be to the right. Do not push on the black lever until the lever begins to close by
itself.
7. When the black lever begins to close by itself, push on it to lock the drive carrier into place.
NOTE
For proper airflow, each hard drive carrier must be placed in the chassis, even if no hard drive is
installed in it. Each HDD carrier must be equipped with either an HDD or a plastic drive blank to
maintain proper system cooling.
