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Dell PowerEdge R630 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.
CAUTION To prevent damage to the hard drives and hard drive backplane, remove the hard drives from the system before removing the hard drive backplane.
CAUTION Note the number of each hard drive and temporarily label them before removal so that you can replace them in the same locations.
  1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions section.
  2. Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system section.
  3. Remove all hard drives.

Steps

  1. Disconnect the SAS/SATA/SSD data cables and power cable from the backplane.
  2. If applicable, disconnect the power and data cable from the optical drive.
  3. Push the backplane blue release tabs in the direction of the arrows and lift the backplane upwards.
  4. Pull the backplane away from the system until the securing slots on the backplane are free from the tabs on the chassis.
    Figure 1. Removing the 2.5-inch (x8) hard drive backplane
    This figure shows removing the 2.5-inch SAS/SATA backplane for 8–hard drive system.
    1. backplane signal cable
    2. backplane signal cable
    3. SAS A cable
    4. release tabs (2)
    5. SAS B cable
    6. backplane
    Figure 2. Cabling diagram—2.5-inch (x8) hard drive systems
    This figure shows cabling between hard drive backplane and system board for eight 2.5-inch SAS/SATA hard drive system.

    1. SAS backplane

    2. signal connector on system board

    3. system board

    4. SAS A connector on system board

    5. SAS B connector on system board

    Figure 3. Removing the 2.5-inch (x10) hard drive backplane
    This figure shows removing the 2.5-inch (x10) hard drive backplane.
    1. release tab
    2. SD signal cable
    3. SD signal cable connector
    4. SAS cables (2)
    5. SAS cable connector (2)
    6. guide pin
    7. guide pin slot
    8. backplane
    Figure 4. Cabling diagram—2.5-inch (x10) hard drive systems
    This figure shows cabling between hard drive backplane and system board for ten 2.5-inch SAS hard drive system

    1. SAS backplane expander card

    2. signal cable connector on the system board

    3. system board

    4. integrated storage controller card

    Figure 5. Removing the 1.8-inch (x24) hard drive backplane
    The figure shows removing the 1.8-inch (x24) hard drive backplane.
    1. SD signal cable (3)
    2. SD signal cable connector (2)
    3. SAS cables (4)
    4. SAS cable connector (4)
    5. guide pin
    6. guide pin slot
    7. backplane
    8. release tab (2)
    Figure 6. Cabling diagram—1.8-inch (x24) hard drive systems
    The figure shows cabling between hard drive backplane and system board for twenty-four 1.8-inch SAS hard drive system.

    1. SAS backplane

    2. SD signal cable connector

    3. SAS backplane expander card

    4. SD signal cable connector

    5. SD signal cable connector

    6. system board
    7. integrated storage controller card

    8. SAS connector on system board

    9. SAS connector on system board

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