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Dell PowerEdge R620 Owner's Manual

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Installing a hot swappable hard drive or solid state drive

  • CAUTION: Use only hard drives that have been tested and approved for use with the hard drive backplane.
  • CAUTION: When installing a hard drive, ensure that the adjacent drives are fully installed. Inserting a hard 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.
  • CAUTION: Combining SAS and SATA hard drives in the same RAID volume is not supported.
  • 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. If a hard drive blank is installed in the hard drive slot, remove it.
  2. Install a hard drive in the hard drive carrier.
  3. Press the release button on the front of the hard drive carrier and open the hard drive carrier handle.
  4. Insert the hard drive carrier into the hard drive slot until the carrier connects with the backplane.
  5. Close the hard drive carrier handle to lock the hard drive in place.
    Figure 1. Installing a hot-swappable hard drive or SSD This figure shows installing a hot-swappable hard drive or SSD.
    1. release button
    2. hard drive or SSD carrier
    3. hard drive or SSD carrier handle

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