Owners Manual

CAUTION: To prevent data loss, ensure that your operating system supports hot-swap drive installation. See the documentation
supplied with your operating system.
CAUTION: When a replacement hot swappable drive is installed and the system is powered on, the drive automatically begins to
rebuild. Ensure that the replacement drive is blank or contains data that you wish to overwrite. Any data on the replacement
drive is immediately lost after the drive is installed.
1 Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
2 If applicable, remove the hard drive blank.
Steps
1 Press the release button on the front of the hard drive to open the release handle.
2 Insert the hard drive into the hard drive slot and slide until the hard drive connects with the backplane.
3 Close the hard drive release handle to lock the hard drive in place.
Figure 56. Installing a hard drive
Next step
If applicable, install the front bezel.
Removing the hard drive from the hard drive carrier
Prerequisite
Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
CAUTION
: Mixing hard drives from previous generations of XC Series servers is not supported.
Steps
1 Using Phillips #1 screwdriver, remove the screws from the slide rails on the hard drive carrier.
2 Lift the hard drive out of the hard drive carrier.
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