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Remove a front hot-swap drive

Follow instructions in this section to remove a front hot-swap drive.

About this task

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

  • If applicable, remove the security bezel. See Remove the security bezel.

  • To make sure that there is adequate system cooling, do not operate the server 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 (including controllers that are integrated on the system board), 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.

Note
  • Make sure you have the drive bay fillers available if some drive bays will be left empty after the removal.

  • When SED encryption is enabled, it is necessary to power cycle the system after installing an SED; without power cycling, the SED will not be recognized by the host OS. See Manage the Self Encryption Drive Authentication Key (SED AK) for more information.

Procedure

  1. Locate the front hot-swap drive to be removed.
    Table 1. Front drive bay numbering (viewed from the front)
    Bay 0Bay 2
    Bay 1Bay 3
  2. Remove the hot-swap drive.
    1. Slide the release latch to unlock the drive handle.
    2. Rotate the drive handle to the open position.
    3. Grasp the handle and slide the drive out of the drive bay.
      Figure 1. Removing a front hot-swap drive

After this task is completed

  • Install a new drive or drive filler into the vacant drive bay. See Install a front hot-swap drive.

    Note
    To make sure that there is adequate system cooling, do not operate the server for more than two minutes without either a drive or a filler installed in each bay.
    Figure 2. Installing a drive filler

  • 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