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Dell PowerEdge M830 Owner's Manual

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Installing a hard drive or SSD

Prerequisites

CAUTION: When a replacement hot-swappable hard drive or SSD is installed and the blade is turned on, the hard drive or SSD automatically begins to rebuild. Make absolutely sure that the replacement hard drive or SSD is blank or contains data that you wish to have over-written. Any data on the replacement hard drive or SSD is immediately lost after the hard drive or SSD is installed.
NOTE: You must remove a hard drive or SSD to upgrade a hard drive or SSD or replace a faulty hard drive or SSD.
  1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions section.
  2. Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system section.

  3. Remove the hard drive or SSD or hard drive or SSD blank.

NOTE: All operating systems do not support hot-swappable drive installation. See the documentation supplied with your operating system.

Steps

  1. Press the release button to open the hard drive or SSD carrier handle.
  2. Slide the hard drive or SSD carrier into the drive bay. Carefully align the channel on the hard drive or SSD carrier with the appropriate drive slot on the blade.
  3. Push the drive carrier into the slot until the handle makes contact with the blade.
  4. Rotate the carrier handle to the closed position while pushing the carrier into the slot until it locks into place.
    The status LED indicator displays a steady green light if the drive is installed correctly. The drive carrier LED green indicator flashes as the drive rebuilds.
    Figure 1. Installing a hard drive
    This image shows installing a hard drive
    1. release button
    2. hard drive(on backplane)
    3. hard drive
    4. hard drive carrier handle
    Figure 2. Installing an SSD
    This figure shows installing an SSD
    1. release button
    2. SSD
    3. SSD carrier handle

Next steps

Follow the procedure listed in the After working inside your system section.

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