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2) The HDD carrier plate has three holes on each side to accommodate different HDD
vendor’s mounting hole locations. Each of the holes provides a dampening rubber to
reduce disk vibration.
Do not remove the rubbers as this may lead to performance degradation or even
malfunction.
Insert the HDD drive from the top into the carrier plate. Align the HDD’s mounting
threads with 2 of the 2 holes on each side of the carrier plate. The holes to use may
vary from disk vendor to disk vendor. For some vendors, all four holes may align.
Figure 51: HDD Carrier plate dampeners
Figure 52: Carrier plate and HDD alignment
3) Insert the screws supplied as part of the HDD kit into the holes and HDD threads.
Make a few turns on each screw only using a PH2 screw driver until the threads start
to engage. Then move on to the next screw. When all screws have been inserted,
fasten the screws tightly.