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Dell Precision 3430 Small Form Factor Service Manual

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Installing the M.2 PCIe Solid State Drive -SSD

  1. Place the thermal pad into the slot on the system board [1].
    • NOTE: M.2 PCIe SSD with capacity over 512G(512G/1TB/2TB) must be installed with a thermal pad. M.2 SATA SSD and M.2 PCIe SSD with 128G and 256G does not require a thermal pad.
  2. Insert the M.2 PCIe SSD card into the card slot on the system board [2].
  3. Replace the single (M2 x 3.5) screw that secures the M.2 PCIe SSD card to the system board [3]. Installing the SSD
  4. Install the:
    1. Hard drive and optical drive module

    2. Front bezel

    3. Side cover

  5. Follow the procedure in After working inside your computer.

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