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Remove the 7mm drive cage

Follow instructions in this section to remove the 7mm drive cage.

About this task

Attention

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

  • Power off the server and peripheral devices and disconnect the power cords and all external cables. See Power off the server.

  • 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.

  • Before you remove or make changes to drives, drive controllers (including controllers that are integrated on the system board assembly), 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.

  • If one or more NVMe solid-state drives are to be removed, it is recommended to disable them beforehand via the operating system.

Procedure

  1. Make preparation for the task.
    1. If the server is installed in a rack, slide the server out on its rack slide rails to gain access to the top cover, or remove the server from the rack. See Remove the server from rack.
    2. Remove the top cover. See Remove the top cover.
    3. Remove all the installed drives and fillers (if any) from the drive bays. See Remove a hot-swap drive.
    4. Record the cable connections for 7mm drives and then disconnect all cables from the backplanes.
  2. Remove the riser assembly with 7mm drive cage from the chassis.

    • 2FH+7mm SSD riser cage

      Figure 1. Removing the 2FH+7mm SSD riser cage
      Removing the 2FH+7mm SSD riser cage
    1. Loosen the screw of the riser cage.
    2. Carefully lift the riser assembly up from the chassis.

    • 7mm SSD riser cage

      Figure 2. Removing the 7mm SSD riser cage
      Removing the 7mm SSD riser cage
  3. (Only for the 2FH+7mm SSD riser cage) Remove the 7mm drive cage from the riser assembly.
    Figure 3. Removing the 7mm drive cage from the riser assembly
    Removing the 7mm drive cage from the riser assembly
    1. Remove the two screws.
    2. Slightly and horizontally slide the cage out of the riser cage.

After you finish

Remove the two 7mm backplanes. See Remove the 7mm drive backplanes.

Demo video

Watch the procedure on YouTube