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Dell PowerEdge T330 Owner's Manual

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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.
  1. Ensure that you follow the Safety instructions.
  2. Follow the procedure listed in Before working inside your system.
    CAUTION: To prevent damage to the drives and backplane, 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 locations.
  3. Remove all hard drives.

Steps

  1. Disconnect the SAS, power, and data cables from the hard drive backplane.
  2. Pull the release pin, and lift the backplane out of the system.
    Figure 1. Removing an x8 hard drive backplane
    This figure shows removing an x8 hard drive backplane.
    1. SAS cable
    2. x8 hard drive backplane
    3. power connector
    4. backplane power cable
    5. optical disk drive power cable
    6. release pin
    7. signal cable
    Figure 2. Connectors on an x8 hard drive backplane
    This figure shows the connectors on an x8 hard drive backplane.
    1. x8 hard drive backplane
    2. optical disk drive connector
    3. backplane power connector
    4. backplane signal connector
    5. SAS A connector
    6. SAS B connector
    Figure 3. Cabling—x8 hard drive backplane with PERC card and SAS HBA
    This figure shows cabling an x8 hard drive backplane with PERC card and SAS HBA.
    1. PERC card
    2. SAS tape drive connector on SAS HBA
    3. SAS Host Bus Adapter (HBA)
    4. system board
    5. optical disk drive connector on system board
    6. SATA connector on system board
    7. x8 hard drive backplane
    8. SAS B connector on backplane
    9. SAS A connector on backplane
    10. SAS tape drive
    11. optical disk drive or SATA tape drive
    12. optical disk drive
    13. SAS A connector on PERC card
    14. SAS B connector on PERC card
    Figure 4. Cabling—x4 hard drive backplane
    This figure shows cabling an x4 hard drive backplane.
    1. system board
    2. SATA connector on system board
    3. optical disk drive connector on system board
    4. mini SAS connector
    5. x4 hard drive backplane
    6. SAS A connector on backplane
    7. optical disk drive or SATA tape drive
    8. optical disk drive

Next steps

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

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