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Remove a hot-swap drive

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

About this task

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 system.

  • 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 lower processor board (MB) or upper processor board (CPU BD), drive backplanes or drive cables, back up all important data that is stored on the 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.

Figure 1. 2.5-inch drive bay numbering
2.5-inch drive bay numbering
Figure 2. E3.S drive bay numbering
E3.S drive bay numbering

Procedure

  1. Open the drive door.
    Figure 3. Opening the drive door
    Opening the drive door
    1. Loosen the thumbscrew. Use a screwdriver if needed.
    2. Grasp the thumbscrew and open the drive door.
  2. Remove the drive.
    Figure 4. Removing a 2.5-inch drive
    Removing a 2.5-inch drive
    Figure 5. Removing a E3.S drive
    Removing a E3.S drive
    Note
    The E3.S drive tray handle opens in different directions depending on the E3.S drive location.
    1. Slide the release latch to open the tray handle.
    2. The tray handle opens automatically.
    3. Grasp and pull the handle to remove the drive from the drive bay.

After you finish

  1. Install a replacement unit or filler. See Install a hot-swap drive.

  2. 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