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Replacing a drive drawer in a DM600S disk shelf

You must stop all host I/O activity and power off the shelf before replacing the drive drawer.

Each of these 60-drive shelves has five drive drawers.

And each of the five drawers can hold up to 12 drives.

Before you begin​

You need these items for this procedure:
  • Antistatic protection
    Attention
    Possible hardware damage – To prevent electrostatic discharge damage to the drive shelf, use proper antistatic protection when handling drive shelf components.
  • Replacement drive drawer
  • Replacement left and right cable chains
  • Flashlight
  • Permanent marker
The video for this task is available at:

Steps​

  1. Removing the cable chains
    Left and right cable chains for each drive drawer in the DM600S drive shelf allow the drawers to slide in and out. Before you can remove a drive drawer, you must remove both cable chains.
  2. Removing a drive drawer
    After removing the right and left cable chains, you can remove the drive drawer from the drive shelf. Removing a drive drawer entails sliding the drawer part of the way out, recording the locations of the drives, removing the drives, and removing the drive drawer.
  3. Installing a drive drawer
    Installing a drive drawer into a drive shelf entails sliding the drawer into the empty slot, installing the drives, and replacing the front bezel.
  4. Attaching the cable chains
    The final step in installing a drive drawer is attaching the left and right cable chains to the drive shelf. When attaching a cable chain, reverse the order you used when disconnecting the cable chain. You must insert the chain's horizontal connector into the horizontal bracket in the enclosure before inserting the chain's vertical connector into the vertical bracket in the enclosure.