Dell PowerEdge XE9785 Installation and Service Manual

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Installing an EDSFF E3.S Gen5 NVMe drive carrier

Prerequisites

CAUTION:To prevent data loss, ensure that your operating system supports hot-swap drive installation. See the documentation supplied with your operating system.
CAUTION:When a replacement hot swappable drive is installed and the system is powered on, the drive automatically begins to rebuild. Ensure that the replacement drive is blank or contains data that you wish to overwrite. Any data on the replacement drive is immediately lost after the drive is installed.
  1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
  2. Remove the drive carrier or remove the drive blank when you want to assemble the drive into the system.
CAUTION:When installing a drive, ensure that the adjacent drives are fully installed. Inserting a drive carrier and attempting to lock its handle next to a partially installed carrier can damage the partially installed carrier's shield spring and make it unusable.
NOTE:Ensure that the drive carrier's release handle is in the open position before inserting the carrier into the slot.

Steps

  1. Slide the drive carrier into the drive slot and push until the drive connects with the backplane.
  2. Close the drive carrier release handle to lock the drive in place.
    Figure 1. Installing an EDSFF E3.S Gen5 NVMe drive carrier
    This image shows the installation of an EDSFF E3.s drive carrier

Next steps

Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.

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