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Remove a 2.5-/3.5-inch hot-swap drive

Follow instructions in this section to remove a 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hot-swap drive.

About this task

Attention

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

  • To make sure that there is adequate system cooling, do not operate the solution 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.

Procedure

Based on your configuration, follow the corresponding procedures to remove a 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hot-swap drive.

Remove a 2.5-inch 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.
    Note
    Install a drive bay filler or replacement drive as soon as possible. See Install a 2.5-/3.5-inch hot-swap drive.
    Figure 1. Removing a 2.5-inch hot-swap drive
    Removing a 2.5-inch hot-swap drive

Remove a 3.5-inch 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.
    Note
    Install a drive bay filler or replacement drive as soon as possible. See Install a 2.5-/3.5-inch hot-swap drive.
    Figure 2. Removing a 3.5-inch hot-swap drive
    Removing a 3.5-inch 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.

Demo video

Watch the procedure on YouTube