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Dell EMC PowerEdge T340 Installation and Service Manual

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Removing a four-slot drive blank

Prerequisites

CAUTION To maintain proper system cooling, all empty drive slots must have drive blanks installed.
  1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
  2. Follow the procedure listed in Before working inside your system.
    CAUTION To prevent damage to the drives and backplane, you must remove the drives from the system before removing the backplane.
    CAUTION Note the slot number of each drive and temporarily label the slots before removing the drives so that you can replace them in the same locations.
  3. Remove the air shroud.
  4. Remove all the drives.
  5. Remove the drive backplane.

Steps

  1. 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.
  2. 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 a four-slot drive blank
    This image shows how to remove a four-slot drive blank.

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