CAUTION: When installing a hard drive/SSD, ensure that the adjacent drives are fully installed.
Inserting a drive assembly and attempting to lock its handle next to a partially installed assembly
can damage the shield spring of the partially installed assembly, and make it unusable.
CAUTION: To prevent data loss, ensure that your operating system supports hot-swap drive
installation. See the documentation supplied with your operating system.
CAUTION: Do not keep the drive drawer open for more than three minutes.
CAUTION: When a replacement hot-swappable hard drive is installed and the system is powered
on, the hard drive automatically begins to rebuild. Make absolutely sure that the replacement
hard drive is blank or contains data that you wish to have over-written. Any data on the
replacement hard drive is immediately lost after the hard drive is installed.
NOTE: If the replacement hard drive/SSD is an online drive that is migrated from another system, it
is detected as Foreign in the PERC BIOS Configuration utility. You can import the existing
configuration or clear the data from the drive. For more information on foreign configuration, see
the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 9 User’s Guide at dell.com/storagecontrollermanuals.
1. Ensure that you read the Safety instructions.
2. Open the drive drawer.
Steps
1. Align the drive rails with the standoffs in the drive slot, with:
a. the connector side of the hard drive/SSD facing up, for even-numbered drive slots.
b. the connector side of the hard drive/SSD facing down, for odd-numbered drive slots.
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