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Remove a 2.5-inch hot-swap rear drive

Use this information to remove a 2.5-inch hot-swap rear drive.

About this task

The following describes the information that you must consider for this task:
  • Ensure that you have backed up data on your drive, especially if it is part of a RAID array.

    • Before you make changes to drives, RAID adapters, or drive backplanes, back up all important data that is stored on the drives.

    • Before you remove any component of a RAID array, back up all RAID configuration information.

Attention

  • Read Installation Guidelines and Safety inspection checklist to ensure that you work safely.

  • Prevent exposure to static electricity, which might lead to system halt and loss of data, by keeping static-sensitive components in their static-protective packages until installation, and handling these devices with an electrostatic-discharge wrist strap or other grounding systems.

  • 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.

Procedure

  1. Remove a hot-swap drive.
    Figure 1. Remove a hot-swap drive

    1. Slide the release latch to the left to open the drive tray handle.
    2. Open the drive handle.
    3. Slide the drive out of the drive bay.
  2. Remove the toolless drive tray from a drive.
    Figure 2. Removing a drive tray

    1. With the drive tray handle in the open position, press the button in the drive tray.
    2. Slide the right bracket out.
    3. Remove the drive out of the drive tray.

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.

Demo video

Watch the procedure on YouTube