Dell EMC PowerEdge T640 - Optical Drives and Tape Drives; Removing the Optical or Tape Drive Blank

Figure 47. Installing a NVMe drive bay or ex bay
Next steps
1 Install the backplane to the NVMe drive bay or ex bay.
2 Connect the slim optical drive and the back plane cables.
3 Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.
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Optical drives and tape drives
Your system supports one of the following congurations:
Table 33. System
congurations
System Congurations
Eight 3.5 inch drives or sixteen 2.5 inch drives Up to two SATA slim optical drives and one SAS tape drive
Sixteen 2.5 inch drives and eight NVMe drives One SATA slim optical drive
Systems with up to eighteen 3.5 inch drives One SATA slim optical drive or one SAS tape drive
Systems with up to thirty-two 2.5 inch drives One SATA slim optical drive
Removing the optical or tape drive blank
Prerequisites
1 Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
2 Follow the procedure listed in Before working inside your system.
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Installing and removing system components