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Removing the 2.5-inch hot-swap hard-disk-drive backplane

Note
After you remove the 2.5-inch hot-swap hard-disk-drive backplane, you need to install a new one. See Installing the 2.5-inch hot-swap hard-disk-drive backplane.

To remove the 2.5-inch hot-swap hard-disk-drive backplane, do the following:

  1. Turn off the server. Then, disconnect all external cables and remove all peripheral devices.
  2. Remove the server cover. See Removing the server cover.
  3. Remove the hard disk drives or fillers out of the server. See Removing a hot-swap hard disk drive.
  4. Disconnect all cables from the hard-disk-drive backplane.
  5. Lift the blue tabs on the backplane to disengage and remove the backplane from the chassis.
    Figure 1. 2.5-inch hot-swap hard-disk-drive backplane removal
    2.5-inch hot-swap hard-disk-drive backplane removal