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Dell PowerEdge FD332 Owner's Manual

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Installing a hard drive/SSD assembly

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 came with the product.
  • CAUTION: Use only hard drives/SSDs that have been tested and approved for use with the hard drive backplane.
  • CAUTION: Combining SAS and SATA hard drives/SSDs in the same RAID volume is not supported.
  • CAUTION: When installing a hard drive/SSD, ensure that the adjacent drives are fully installed. Inserting a drive assembly and attempting to lock its handle next to a partially installed assembly can damage the shield spring of the partially installed assembly, and make it unusable.
  • CAUTION: To prevent data loss, ensure that your operating system supports hot-swap drive installation. See the documentation supplied with your operating system.
  • CAUTION: Do not keep the drive drawer open for more than three minutes.
  • CAUTION: When a replacement hot-swappable hard drive is installed and the system is powered on, the hard drive automatically begins to rebuild. Make absolutely sure that the replacement hard drive is blank or contains data that you wish to have over-written. Any data on the replacement hard drive is immediately lost after the hard drive is installed.
  • NOTE: If the replacement hard drive/SSD is an online drive that is migrated from another system, it is detected as Foreign in the PERC BIOS Configuration utility. You can import the existing configuration or clear the data from the drive. For more information on foreign configuration, see the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 9 User’s Guide at dell.com/storagecontrollermanuals.
  1. Ensure that you read the Safety instructions.
  2. Open the drive drawer.

Steps

  1. Align the drive rails with the standoffs in the drive slot, with:
    1. the connector side of the hard drive/SSD facing up, for even-numbered drive slots.
    2. the connector side of the hard drive/SSD facing down, for odd-numbered drive slots.
    Figure 1. Hard drive/SSD assembly orientation for even and odd-numbered slots This figure shows hard drive/SSD assembly orientation for even and odd numbered drive slots.
    1. hard drive/SSD assembly orientation for even numbered slots (with connector side of drive facing up)
    2. storage sled
    3. hard drive/SSD assembly orientation for odd numbered slots (with connector side of drive facing down)
  2. Slide the drive assembly into the slot until the drive connector engages with the connector on the backplane.
  3. Close the drive release handle until it clicks into place, to lock the hard drive/SSD.

Next steps

Close the drive drawer.

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