TX1320 M4 Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
7 Hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives (SSD) . . . . 129
7.1 Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
7.2 Handling HDDs or SSDs without installation frame . . . . . 131
7.2.1 2.5-inch HDD/SSD and 2.5-inch installation frame . . . . . . . 131
7.3 3.5-inch HDD configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
7.3.1 Configuration with up to two 3.5-inch HDDs . . . . . . . . . . . 133
7.3.2 Installing 3.5-inch non hot-plug HDDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
7.3.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
7.3.2.2 Installing a 3.5-inch non hot-plug HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
7.3.2.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
7.3.3 Removing 3.5-inch non hot-plug HDDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
7.3.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
7.3.3.2 Removing a 3.5-inch non hot-plug HDD . . . . . . . . . . . 138
7.3.3.3 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
7.3.4 Replacing a 3.5-inch non hot-plug HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
7.3.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
7.3.4.2 Removing the defective 3.5-inch non hot-plug HDD . . . . . 140
7.3.4.3 Installing the new 3.5-inch non hot-plug HDD . . . . . . . . 140
7.3.4.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
7.4 2.5-inch HDD/SSD configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
7.4.1 Configuration with up to four HDD/SSD modules . . . . . . . . 141
7.4.2 Configuration with up to eight HDD/SSD modules . . . . . . . 142
7.4.3 Configuration with up to four PCIe SSD modules . . . . . . . . 143
7.4.4 Installing 2.5-inch HDD/SSD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
7.4.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
7.4.4.2 Removing a 2.5-inch HDD/SSD dummy module . . . . . . . 144
7.4.4.3 Installing a 2.5-inch HDD/SSD module . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
7.4.4.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
7.4.5 Removing 2.5-inch HDD/SSD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
7.4.5.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
7.4.5.2 Removing a 2.5-inch HDD/SSD module . . . . . . . . . . . 147
7.4.5.3 Installing a 2.5-inch HDD/SSD dummy module . . . . . . . 148
7.4.5.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
7.4.6 Replacing a 2.5-inch HDD/SSD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
7.4.6.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
7.4.6.2 Removing the defective 2.5-inch HDD/SSD module . . . . . 150
7.4.6.3 Installing the new 2.5-inch HDD/SSD module . . . . . . . . 150
7.4.6.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150