- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 system overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Optional front bezel
- System feet
- Inside the system
- Caster wheels – optional
- System cover
- Air shroud
- Drives
- Removing a drive blank
- Installing a drive blank
- Removing a drive carrier
- Installing a drive carrier
- Removing the drive from the drive carrier
- Installing a drive into the drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5-inch drive from a 3.5-inch drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5-inch drive into a 3.5-inch drive adapter
- Removing a 3.5-inch drive adapter from a 3.5-inch drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5-inch drive adapter into the 3.5-inch drive carrier
- Optical drives and tape drives
- Cabled drives
- Drive backplane
- System memory
- Cooling fans
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Expansion card holder
- Expansion cards
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional MicroSD or vFlash card
- Optional IDSDM or vFlash module
- Processors and heat sinks
- Power supply units
- Power interposer board
- System battery
- Control panel assembly
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Converting the system from tower mode to rack mode
- Updating BIOS
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Dell EMC PowerEdge T440 Installation and Service Manual
Removing the optical or tape drive blank
NOTE Valid TBU configurations:
- HBA330 adapter can be connected to TBU and the PERC H740P, H730P, H330, HBA330 can be connected to the drive backplane.
- HBA350i adapter can be connected to TBU and the PERC H750, H350, HBA350i can be connected to the drive backplane.
Prerequisites
- Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
- Follow the procedure listed in Before working inside your system.
- If applicable, remove the front bezel.
Steps
- To remove the drive blank, slide the release latch down to release the drive blank.
- Push the drive blank to slide it out of the drive bay.
NOTE Blanks must be installed on empty optical drive or tape drive slots to maintain FCC certification of the system. The brackets also keep dust and dirt out of the system and aid in proper cooling and airflow inside the system. Perform the same steps to install blanks.
Figure 1. Removing the optical drive or tape drive blank 
Next steps
- Install the optical drive cage or tape drive.
- If applicable, install the bezel.
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