Chapter 5: System Maintenance
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5.7. Replacing a Hard Drive
5.7.1 Hard Drive Maintenance Overview
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Hot-swappable drive trays:
The drive trays are all hot-swappable. A
disk drive failure can be corrected online.
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Handles:
If a faulty drive is behind either the left- or right-side front
handle, unfold the handles to open the front access to the drive trays.
CAUTION!
Failure to remove a healthy drive from the system after the
front bezel has been opened can cause data errors.
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Slow and careful removal:
When removing a drive tray from the
system,
pull the drive tray out only about one inch and then wait for
at least 30 seconds for the hard drive motor to spin down before
taking it out completely
. Any impact to the hard drive while the drive
motor is spinning can damage the hard drive.
There are situations in which healthy drives can be removed. In
operations such as copying & replacing member drives with drives of
larger capacity, you may need the replaced disk drives in other
installations.
