Upgrade and Maintenance Manual TX2550 M4
7.4.10.3 Removing the 4x 3.5-inch HDD front panel . . . . . . . . . 235
7.4.10.4 Installing the second 3.5-inch HDD SAS backplane . . . . 236
7.4.10.5 Installing the 8x 3.5-inch HDD front panel . . . . . . . . . . 238
7.4.10.6 Installing the 3.5-inch HDD bay top cover . . . . . . . . . . 238
7.4.10.7 Connecting cables to the SAS backplane 2 . . . . . . . . . 239
7.4.10.8 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
7.5 HDD/SSD extension boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
7.5.1 HDD/SSD extension boxes overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
7.5.1.1 8x 2.5-inch HDD/SSD extension box . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
7.5.1.2 4x 3.5-inch HDD/SSD extension box . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
7.5.2 Installing the 8x 2.5-inch HDD/SSD extension box . . . . . . . 242
7.5.2.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
7.5.2.2 Removing accessible drive dummy covers . . . . . . . . . 242
7.5.2.3 Installing the HDD/SSD backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
7.5.2.4 Installing the 8x 2.5-inch HDD/SSD extension box . . . . . 243
7.5.2.5 Cabling the 8x 2.5-inch HDD/SSD extension box . . . . . . 245
7.5.2.6 Installing HDD modules into the 8x 2.5-inch HDD/SSD
extension box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
7.5.2.7 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
7.5.3 Removing the 8x 2.5-inch HDD/SSD extension box . . . . . . 246
7.5.3.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
7.5.3.2 Removing the 8x 2.5-inch HDD/SSD extension box . . . . 247
7.5.3.3 Installing accessible drive dummy covers . . . . . . . . . . 248
7.5.3.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
7.5.4 Replacing the HDD/SSD backplane on the
8x 2.5-inch HDD/SSD extension box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
7.5.4.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
7.5.4.2 Removing the defective HDD/SSD backplane . . . . . . . 249
7.5.4.3 Installing the new HDD/SSD backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 250
7.5.4.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
7.5.5 Installing the 4x 3.5-inch HDD extension box . . . . . . . . . . 251
7.5.5.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
7.5.5.2 Removing accessible drive dummy covers . . . . . . . . . 251
7.5.5.3 Installing the ultraslim ODD into the HDD extension box . . 251
7.5.5.4 Installing the HDD backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
7.5.5.5 Installing the 4x 3.5-inch HDD extension box . . . . . . . . 252
7.5.5.6 Cabling the 4x 3.5-inch HDD extension box . . . . . . . . 254
7.5.5.7 Installing HDD modules into the 4x 3.5-inch HDD
extension box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
7.5.5.8 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
7.5.6 Removing the 4x 3.5-inch HDD extension box . . . . . . . . . 255