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Dell PowerEdge R230 Owner's Manual

Removing the hard drive backplane

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.

CAUTION: : To prevent damage to the drives and backplane, you must remove the hard drives from the system before removing the backplane.

CAUTION: : You must note the number of each hard drive and temporarily label them before removal so that you can replace them in the same locations.

  1. Ensure that you follow the Safety instructions.
  2. Follow the procedure listed in Before working inside your system.
  3. Remove all the hard drives.
  4. Disconnect the SAS/SATA data, signal, and power cable(s) from the backplane.

Steps

Press the release tabs and lift the hard drive backplane out of the chassis.
Figure 1. Removing the four 3.5-inch hot swappable SAS/SATA hard drive backplane
This figure shows removing the four 3.5-inch hot swappable SAS/SATA hard drive backplane.
  1. guide (2)

  2. hard drive backplane

  3. release tab (2)

  4. backplane power cable

  5. backplane signal cable

  6. SAS_A connector on the backplane

  7. hard drive connector (4)

Figure 2. Cabling diagram—Four 3.5-inch hot swappable SAS/SATA hard drive backplane
This figure shows cabling hard drive backplane 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch (x4) SAS/SATA backplane.
  1. power supply unit
  2. signal connector on the system board
  3. hard drive/optical drive power connector on the system board
  4. system board
  5. SATA/optical drive connector on the system board
  6. mini-SAS connector for SATA hard drives
  7. cable routing clip
  8. optical drive
  9. SATA connector on the hard drive backplane
  10. hard drive backplane
  11. signal connector on the hard drive backplane
  12. power connector on the hard drive backplane

Next steps

  1. Install the hard drive backplane.
  2. Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.

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