Dell E30S Series

Installing the optical drive or tape drive.................................................................................................................82
Cooling shroud................................................................................................................................................................... 84
Removing the cooling shroud................................................................................................................................... 84
Installing the cooling shroud..................................................................................................................................... 85
Hot-swappable hard drives.............................................................................................................................................86
Removing a hot swappable hard drive carrier......................................................................................................86
Installing a hot swappable hard drive carrier........................................................................................................ 87
Removing a hard-drive blank.................................................................................................................................... 88
Installing a hard-drive blank...................................................................................................................................... 89
Removing a 2.5-inch hot swappable hard drive from a 3.5-inch hard drive adapter................................. 90
Installing a 2.5-inch hot swappable hard drive into a 3.5-inch hard drive adapter......................................91
Removing a 3.5-inch hard drive adapter from a 3.5-inch hot swappable hard drive carrier....................92
Installing a 3.5-inch hard drive adapter into the 3.5-inch hot swappable hard drive carrier....................92
Removing a hot swappable hard drive from a hard drive carrier.....................................................................93
Installing a hot swappable hard drive into a hard drive carrier.........................................................................94
Cabled drives......................................................................................................................................................................94
Removing the internal hard drive bay.....................................................................................................................94
Installing the internal hard drive bay.......................................................................................................................95
Removing a cabled drive............................................................................................................................................96
Installing a cabled hard drive.................................................................................................................................... 98
Hard drive backplane...................................................................................................................................................... 100
Removing the hard drive backplane .....................................................................................................................100
Installing the hard drive backplane........................................................................................................................ 104
Four-slot hard drive blank............................................................................................................................................. 105
Removing a four-slot hard drive blank................................................................................................................. 105
Installing a four-slot hard drive blank....................................................................................................................106
System memory................................................................................................................................................................107
General memory module installation guidelines.................................................................................................. 108
Mode-specific guidelines......................................................................................................................................... 109
Sample memory configurations...............................................................................................................................110
Removing memory modules..................................................................................................................................... 114
Installing memory modules....................................................................................................................................... 115
Cooling fans....................................................................................................................................................................... 116
Removing the internal cooling fan.......................................................................................................................... 117
Installing the internal cooling fan............................................................................................................................ 117
Removing the external cooling fan ........................................................................................................................118
Installing the external cooling fan...........................................................................................................................119
Internal USB memory key (optional)...........................................................................................................................120
Replacing the optional internal USB memory key.............................................................................................. 120
Expansion card holder..................................................................................................................................................... 121
Removing the expansion card holder.....................................................................................................................121
Installing the expansion card holder...................................................................................................................... 122
Expansion cards............................................................................................................................................................... 123
Expansion card installation guidelines................................................................................................................... 123
GPU card installation guidelines............................................................................................................................. 124
Removing an expansion card...................................................................................................................................124
Installing an expansion card.....................................................................................................................................126
Removing a GPU card...............................................................................................................................................127
Installing an optional GPU card.............................................................................................................................. 128
iDRAC port card (optional)............................................................................................................................................129
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