TX300 S7 / RX350 S7 Upgrade and Maintenance Manual 277
Hard disk drives / solid state drives
7.3.7 Removing 3.5-inch HDD modules
7.3.7.1 Required tools
● Preliminary and concluding steps: tool-less
● Removing a 3.5-inch HDD module: tool-less
7.3.7.2 Preliminary steps
Before removing a 3.5-inch HDD module, perform the following steps:
Ê If the HDD / SSD module to be removed is combined into a RAID array,
please proceed as follows:
Customer Replaceable Units (CRU)
Average task duration: 5 minutes
RAID level Procedure
RAID 0
Only remove an HDD module combined in a RAID 0
array if defective.
V CAUTION!
Removing an operational HDD module will
result in data loss!
RAID 1
RAID 5
Removing an HDD module from a RAID 1 or RAID 5
array will not result in data loss.
However, the removed drive needs to be replaced
immediately by an HDD module of the same or larger
capacity.
I After replacing the HDD module, RAID rebuild
will be performed as a background process as
described in section "Performing a RAID array
rebuild" on page 166.