Remove a hot-swap drive
Follow instructions in this section to remove a hot-swap drive.
About this task
Attention:
• Read
“Installation Guidelines” on page 47 and “Safety inspection checklist” on page 48 to ensure that you
work safely.
• Before you remove or make changes to drives, drive controllers (including controllers that are integrated
on the system board assembly), drive backplanes or drive cables, back up all important data that is stored
on drives.
• Before you remove any component of a RAID array (drive, RAID card, etc.), back up all RAID configuration
information.
• If one or more NVMe solid-state drives are to be removed, it is recommended to disable them beforehand
via the operating system.
• To ensure that there is adequate system cooling, do not operate the server for more than two minutes
without either a drive or a drive filler installed in each bay.
Note: Make sure you have the drive bay fillers available if some drive bays will be left empty after the
removal.
Procedure
Step 1. If the security bezel is installed, remove it first. See
“Remove the security bezel” on page 245.
Step 2. Slide the release latch to unlock the drive handle.
2.5-inch hot-swap drive
3.5-inch hot-swap drive
Step 3. Grasp the handle and slide the drive out of the drive bay.
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