Owners Manual
Figure 58. Installing a hard drive into the hard drive carrier
Hard drive backplane
Depending on your system conguration, the drive backplanes supported in XC640 Seriesare listed here:
Table 41. Supported backplane options for PowerEdge R640 systems
System Supported drives options
XC640 Series
2.5 inch (x10) SAS, SATA, or NVMe backplane
3.5 inch (x4) SAS or SATA backplane
NOTE: Mixing of 2.5 inch 10K or 15K SAS hard drives with 2.5 inch 7.2K SATA or Nearline SAS hard drives on the same backplane
is not supported. You can mix solid state drives with hard drives on the same backplane.
Removing the hard drive backplane
Prerequisites
CAUTION
: To prevent damage to the drives and backplane, remove the hard drives from the system before removing the
backplane.
CAUTION: Note the number of each hard drive and temporarily label them before you remove the hard drive so that you can
replace them in the same location.
NOTE: The procedure to remove the backplane is similar for all backplane congurations.
1 Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
2 Follow the procedure listed in Before working inside your system.
3 Remove the air shroud
4 Remove the backplane cover
5 Remove all hard drives from the front bay.
6 Disconnect all the cables from the backplane.
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