Disk drive guidelines
• Follow industry-standard practices when handling disk drives. Internal storage media can be damaged when drives are
shaken, dropped, or roughly placed on a work surface.
• When installing a disk drive, press firmly to make sure the drive is fully seated in the drive bay and then close the latch
handle.
• When removing a disk drive, press the release button and pull the drive only slightly out of the enclosure. Then, to
allow time for the internal disk to stop rotating, wait approximately 10 seconds before completely removing the drive
from the enclosure.
• Always populate hard drive bays starting with the lowest bay number. If only one hard drive is used, install it in the
bay with the lowest device number.
• Disk drives are hot-pluggable.
• SAS and SATA disk drives may be installed in the same enclosure, but can not be included in the same RAID logical
volume.
Installing a disk drive
Prerequisites
CAUTION: To prevent improper cooling and thermal damage, operate the enclosure only when all bays are
populated with either a component or a blank.
Procedure
1.
Remove the drive blank.
2. Unlatch and swing out the latch handle on the drive. Then, slide the drive into the bay (1), pressing firmly on the drive
to seat it. Close the latch handle (2), pressing firmly until it locks in place.
IMPORTANT: When a drive is inserted in an operational enclosure, the drive LEDs flash to indicate that the
drive is seated properly and receiving power.
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