- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Working inside your computer
- Removing and installing components
- Recommended tools
- Screw list
- Major components of Precision 7960 Tower
- Backplanes supported on Precision 7960 Tower
- Left-side cover
- Front bezel
- Front optical-drive and hard-drive bezel
- Front optical-drive and hard-drive inner bezel
- Top cover
- Front I/O-bezel
- Front I/O-board
- Rear bezel
- Air shroud
- Memory fan
- Memory module
- Heat sink
- Processor
- Coin-cell battery
- External storage flexbay (Hard drive)
- Removing the front 2.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Installing the front 2.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Removing the front 3.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Installing the front 3.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Removing the rear 2.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Installing the rear 2.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Removing the rear 3.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Installing the rear 3.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Removing the external 2.5-inch hard-drive caddy
- Installing the external 2.5-inch hard-drive caddy
- Removing the external 3.5-inch hard-drive caddy
- Installing the external 3.5-inch hard-drive caddy
- M.2 solid-state drive module
- External storage flexbay (Solid-state drive)
- Slim optical-drive
- PCIe holder
- Front fan
- Rear fans
- Expansion card
- Removing the powered graphics-card
- Installing the powered graphics-card
- Removing the non-powered graphics card
- Installing the non-powered graphics card
- Removing the UltraSpeed Duo card
- Installing the UltraSpeed Duo solid-state drive
- Installing the UltraSpeed Duo card
- Removing the UltraSpeed Quad card
- Installing the UltraSpeed Quad solid-state drive
- Installing the UltraSpeed Quad card
- Removing the Thunderbolt 4 PCIe card
- Installing the Thunderbolt 4 PCIe card
- Removing the wireless card
- Installing the wireless card
- Speaker
- Right-side cover
- Power-supply unit
- Power-distribution board
- Front-NVMe module
- Rear-NVMe module
- Front SATA/SAS module
- Rear SATA/SAS module
- Front SATA hard-drive modules
- System board
- Rail kit
- Drivers and downloads
- BIOS Setup
- Troubleshooting
- Getting help and contacting Dell
Precision 7960 Tower Service Manual
Removing the front SATA hard-drive modules
Prerequisites
- Follow the procedure in Before working inside your computer.
- Remove the front 2.5-inch hard-drive assembly.
- Remove the front 3.5-inch hard-drive assembly.
- Remove the right-side cover.
About this task
The following images indicate the location of the front SATA hard-drive modules and provide a visual representation of the removal procedure.
Steps
- Disconnect the thermal-sensor cables and fan-controller cables from the connectors on the power-distribution board.
- Disconnect the SATA data cable from the connector on the system board.
- Disconnect the power cable from the dongle-cable.
- Unroute the data and power cables from the clip on the chassis.
- Remove the four screws (6-32) that secure the front SATA hard-drive modules to the flex0 and flex1.
- Lift and remove the front SATA hard-drive modules away from the flex0 and flex1.
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