- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T640 overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Optional front bezel
- System feet
- Caster wheels – optional
- 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 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
- 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
- Power supply units
- System cover
- Inside the system
- Air shroud
- Cooling fans
- Cooling fan (middle fan) assembly
- Flex bays
- Optical drives and tape drives
- NVDIMM-N battery
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- Expansion card holder
- GPU card holder (optional)
- Expansion cards
- Optional GPU card
- NVLink bridge
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional MicroSD or vFlash card
- Optional IDSDM or vFlash module
- Backplane
- Backplane cabling
- Integrated storage controller card
- System battery
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Control panel assembly
- Trusted Platform Module
- System board
- Power interposer boards
- Converting the system from tower mode to rack mode
- System diagnostics
- Getting help
Dell Technologies PowerEdge T640 Installation and Service Manual
Removing a drive blank
The procedure for removing 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch drive blanks is identical.
Prerequisites
- Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
- If installed, remove the front bezel.
CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, drive blanks must be installed
in all empty drive slots.
CAUTION: Mixing drive blanks
from previous generations of PowerEdge servers is not supported.
Steps
Press the release button, and slide the drive blank out of the drive
slot.Figure 1. Removing a drive
blank 
Next steps
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