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Remove an E1.S hot-swap drive from a compute tray

Follow instructions in this section to remove an E1.S hot-swap drive from a compute tray.

About this task

Attention
  • Read Installation Guidelines and Safety inspection checklist to ensure that you work safely.
  • Touch the static-protective package that contains the component to any unpainted metal surface on the server; then, remove it from the package and place it on a static-protective surface.
  • To make sure that there is adequate system cooling, do not operate the compute tray for more than two minutes without either a drive or a filler installed in each bay.
  • If one or more NVMe solid-state drives are to be removed, it is recommended to disable them beforehand via the operating system.
  • Before you remove or make changes to drives, drive controllers, drive backplanes or drive cables, back up all important data that is stored on drives.
Note
  • Make sure you have the drive bay fillers available if some drive bays will be left empty after the removal.
  • There are two types of E1.S drive but removal procedures are the same.

Procedure

  1. Press the blue latch.
  2. Rotate the drive handle to the open position.
  3. Grasp the handle and slide the E1.S drive out of the drive bay.
    Note
    Install a drive bay filler or replacement drive as soon as possible. See Install an E1.S hot-swap drive to a compute tray.
    Figure 1. Removing the E1.S hot-swap drive
    Removing the E1.S hot-swap drive

After you finish

If you are instructed to return the component or optional device, follow all packaging instructions, and use any packaging materials for shipping that are supplied to you.