RX2540 M2 Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
7.5.2.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
7.5.3 Upgrading the 4x 2.5-inch PCIe SSD backplane (front side) . . 210
7.5.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
7.5.3.2 Installing the 4x 2.5-inch PCIe SSDbackplane . . . . . . . . 211
7.5.3.3 Connecting cables to PCIe backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
7.5.3.4 Connecting cables to the PCIe switch . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
7.5.3.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
7.5.4 Replacing the 4x 2.5-inch PCIe SSD backplane . . . . . . . . 214
7.5.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
7.5.4.2 Removing cables from PCIe backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 215
7.5.4.3 Removing the 4x 2.5-inch PCIe SSD backplane . . . . . . . 216
7.5.4.4 Installing the PCIe backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
7.5.4.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
7.5.5 Upgrading up to 24x 2.5-inch HDDs/SSDs . . . . . . . . . . . 217
7.5.5.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
7.5.5.2 Installing the second/third SAS backplane . . . . . . . . . . 217
7.5.5.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
7.5.6 Replacing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
7.5.6.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
7.5.6.2 Removing the SAS expander holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
7.5.6.3 Removing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
7.5.6.4 Installing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
7.5.6.5 Installing the SAS expander holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
7.5.6.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
7.6 Rear HDD/SSD or PCIe SSD extension box . . . . . . . . . 224
7.6.1 Replacing the backplane of the extension box . . . . . . . . . 224
7.6.1.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
7.6.1.2 Disconnecting cables from the rear backplane . . . . . . . 225
7.6.1.3 Removing the rear backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
7.6.1.4 Installing the rear backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
7.6.1.5 Connecting cables to the rear backplane . . . . . . . . . . 227
7.6.1.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
7.6.2 Upgrading a rear extension box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
7.6.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
7.6.2.2 Removing the rear air grid (left hand) . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
7.6.2.3 Installing the rear HDD cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
7.6.2.4 Installing the rear backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
7.6.2.5 Connecting cables to the rear backplane . . . . . . . . . . 233
7.6.2.6 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
7.6.3 Removing the rear extension box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
7.6.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235