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Remove the hot-swap rear drive assembly

Use this information to remove the hot-swap rear drive assembly.

About this task

The following illustrates how to remove the 2.5-inch rear drive assembly. You can remove the 7mm rear drive assembly in the same way.

Attention
  • Read Installation guidelines to ensure that you work safely.

  • Power off the server and disconnect all power cords for this task.

  • 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 system.

Procedure

  1. Remove the top cover. See Remove the top cover.
  2. Remove the drives or drive fillers installed in the hot-swap rear drive cage. See Remove a hot-swap drive.
  3. Disconnect the hot-swap rear drive cage cables from the system board or the PCIe adapter.
    Attention
    To avoid damaging the system board, make sure to follow the instructions in Internal cable routing when disconnecting cables from the system board.
  4. Hold the two blue touch points and directly lift the hot-swap rear drive cage out of the chassis.
    Figure 1. Hot-swap rear drive cage removal
    Hot-swap rear drive cage removal

  5. If the rear backplane is reused, remove the rear backplane. See Remove the 2.5-inch rear drive backplane.

After you finish

If you are instructed to return the old hot-swap rear drive cage, follow all packaging instructions and use any packaging materials that are provided.

Demo video

Watch the procedure on YouTube