Dell PowerEdge T330 Owner's Manual

Removing a four-slot hard drive blank

CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, all empty hard drive slots must have hard drive blanks installed.

Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions section.
Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system section.
CAUTION: To prevent damage to the hard drives and backplane, you must remove the hard drives from the system before removing the backplane.
CAUTION: Note the slot number of each hard drive and temporarily label the slots before removing the hard drives so that you can replace them in the same location(s).
Remove the cooling shroud.
Remove all hard drives.
Remove the x8 hard drive backplane.

Using a screwdriver, push the release tabs on the corners of the blank from inside the system, to unlock the four-slot hard drive blank from the chassis.
From the front of the system, pull the four-slot hard drive blank at the corners until it is free of the hard drive slot.
Figure 1. Removing the four-slot hard drive blank
1. four-slot hard drive blank
2. release tab (4)
3. screwdriver