Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell PowerEdge R730 Owner's Manual
- Contents
- Dell PowerEdge R730 system overview
- Documentation resources
- Technical specifications
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Pre-operating system management applications
- Options to manage the pre-operating system applications
- System Setup
- Viewing System Setup
- System Setup details
- System BIOS
- iDRAC Settings utility
- Device Settings
- Dell Lifecycle Controller
- Boot Manager
- PXE boot
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Front bezel (optional)
- System cover
- Inside the system
- Cooling shroud
- Cooling fans
- Cooling fan assembly
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- PCIe card holder
- Cable retention bracket
- Integrated storage controller card
- Expansion cards and expansion card riser
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Removing an expansion card from expansion card riser 2 or 3
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion card riser 2 or 3
- Removing an expansion card from the expansion card riser 1
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion card riser 1
- Removing the riser 1 blank
- Installing the riser 1 blank
- Removing expansion card risers
- Installing expansion card risers
- GPU card installation guidelines
- Removing the GPU card
- Installing a GPU card
- IDSDM
- Network daughter card
- Internal USB memory key (optional)
- System battery
- Power supply units (PSU)
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Hard drives
- Removing a 2.5-inch hard drive blank
- Installing a 2.5-inch hard drive blank
- Removing a 3.5-inch hard drive blank
- Installing a 3.5-inch hard drive blank
- Removing a hot swappable hard drive or solid state drive
- Installing a hot swappable hard drive or solid state drive
- Removing a hard drive or a solid state drive from a hard drive carrier
- Installing a hard drive or solid state drives into a hard drive carrier
- Removing a 1.8-inch hard drive blank
- Installing a 1.8-inch hard drive blank
- Removing a 1.8-inch hard drive from a hard drive carrier
- Installing a 1.8-inch hard drive into a hard drive carrier
- Hard drive backplane
- Tape backup unit (optional)
- Optical drive (optional)
- SD vFlash card (optional)
- Control panel assembly
- Using system diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Troubleshooting your system
- Troubleshooting system startup failure
- Troubleshooting external connections
- Troubleshooting the video subsystem
- Troubleshooting a USB device
- Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct - USB XML configuration
- Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct - Laptop connection
- Troubleshooting a serial input and output device
- Troubleshooting a NIC
- Troubleshooting a wet system
- Troubleshooting a damaged system
- Troubleshooting the system battery
- Troubleshooting power supply units
- Troubleshooting cooling problems
- Troubleshooting cooling fans
- Troubleshooting system memory
- Troubleshooting an internal USB key
- Troubleshooting a micro SD card
- Troubleshooting an optical drive
- Troubleshooting a tape backup unit
- Troubleshooting a drive or SSD
- Troubleshooting a storage controller
- Troubleshooting expansion cards
- Troubleshooting processors
- System messages
- Getting help
Figure 91. Installing a 1.8 inch hot-swappable uSATA SSD carrier
a. release button
b. SSD carrier
c. SSD carrier handle
Related tasks
Removing a 3.5-inch hard drive blank on page 151
Removing a 2.5-inch hard drive blank on page 149
Installing a hard drive or solid state drives into a hard drive carrier on page 156
Installing the hard drive backplane on page 166
Removing a hard drive or a solid state drive from a hard drive
carrier
Prerequisites
1. Keep the Phillips #1 screwdriver ready.
2. Remove the hot swappable hard drive carrier from the system.
Steps
1. Remove the screws from the slide rails on the hard drive carrier.
2. Lift the hard drive out of the hard drive carrier.
Figure 92. Removing a hard drive from a hard drive carrier
a. screw (4)
b. hard drive
c. hard drive carrier
Installing and removing system components
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