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Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 Installation and Service Manual

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Installing a hard drive backplane

Prerequisites

  1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
  2. Follow the procedure listed in Before working inside your system.
  3. If installed, remove the front bezel.
  4. Remove the air shroud.

Steps

  1. Use the hooks at the base of the system as guides to align the hard drive backplane.
  2. Lower the hard-drive backplane into the system till the release pin locks in place, securing the hard drive backplane to the system.
  3. Connect the data, signal, and power cables to the backplane.
    Figure 1. Installing a hard drive backplane
    This image shows installing a hard drive backplane

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