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Dell PowerEdge R330 Owner's Manual

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Installing a 3.5-inch cabled hard drive carrier

Prerequisites

CAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by a certified service technician. You should only perform troubleshooting and simple repairs as authorized in your product documentation, or as directed by the online or telephone service and support team. Damage due to servicing that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by your warranty. Read and follow the safety instructions that are shipped with your product.

  1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions section.
  2. Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system section.
  3. Keep the Phillips #2 screwdriver ready.

Steps

  1. Press the release tab on the hard drive carrier and slide the hard drive carrier out of the system.
  2. Install the hard drive into the hard drive carrier.
    1. Secure the hard drive in place with screws.
  3. Insert the hard drive carrier into the hard drive slot, and push the hard drive carrier until it clicks into place.
  4. Connect the power and data cable to the hard drive.
    • If connecting to the integrated SATA controller (SATA hard drives only), connect the SATA data cable to the SATA_A-D connector on the system board.
    • If connecting to a SAS RAID controller card (SAS or SATA hard drives), connect the data cable to the connector on the card.
    Figure 1. Installing a cabled hard drive carrier
    This figure shows installing a cabled hard drive carrier.
    1. power/data cable
    2. hard drive
    3. release tab
    4. hard drive carrier
    5. screw (4)

Next steps

  1. Enter System Setup and ensure that the controller of the hard drive is enabled.
  2. Exit System Setup and reboot the system.
  3. Install any software required for the hard drive operation as described in the documentation for the hard drive.

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