Dell PowerEdge R430 Owner's Manual

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.

CAUTION To prevent damage to the drives and backplane, you must remove the hard drives from the system before removing the backplane.

CAUTION You must note the number of each hard drive and temporarily label them before removal so that you can replace them in the same locations.

Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions section.
Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system section.
Remove all hard drives.

Steps

Disconnect the SAS/SATA data, signal, and power cable(s) from the backplane.
Press the release tabs and lift the backplane upward and slide it toward the back of the chassis.
Figure 1. Removing the four 3.5 inch hard drive SAS/SATA backplane
1. guide (2)
2. hard drive/SSD backplane
3. release tab (2)
4. backplane power cable
5. backplane signal cable
6. SAS_A connector on the backplane
7. hard drive/SSD connector (4)
Figure 2. Cabling diagram—Four 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch hard drive SAS/SATA backplane
1. SW_RAID_A connector on the system board
2. SATA_CDROM connector on the system board
3. cable routing latch
4. SAS_A connector on the backplane
5. Optical Disk Drive (ODD)
6. hard drive backplane
7. system board
Figure 3. Removing the eight 2.5 inch SAS/SATA backplane
1. hard drive/SSD backplane
2. backplane power cable
3. backplane signal cable
4. SAS_A cable connector
5. release tab (2)
6. SAS_B cable connector
7. hard drive/SSD connector (8)
Figure 4. Cabling diagram—Eight 2.5 inch SAS/SATA backplane
1. integrated storage controller card
2. SATA_CDROM connector on the system board
3. cable routing latch
4. Optical Disk Drive (ODD)
5. SAS_A connector on the backplane
6. SAS_ B connector on the backplane
7. hard drive/SSD backplane
8. system board
Figure 5. Removing the ten 2.5 inch SAS/SATA backplane
1. hard drive/SSD backplane
2. backplane power cable
3. release tab (2)
4. SAS_A connector on the backplane
5. hard drive/SSD connector (10)
6. SAS_B connector on the backplane
7. SAS_C connector on the backplane
Figure 6. Cabling diagram—Ten 2.5 inch SAS/SATA backplane
1. SW_RAID_A connector on the system board
2. SW_RAID_B connector on the system board
3. SATA_hard drive8 connector on the system board
4. SATA_hard drive9 connector on the system board
5. cable routing latch
6. SAS_A connector on the backplane
7. SAS_B connector on the backplane
8. SAS_C connector on the backplane
9. hard drive/SSD backplane
10. system board