Owners Manual

Hardware Owner's Manual

2 Maintaining Drives

3. Hold the drive by the carrier and slide the drive most of the way into a slot (callout 1 in Figure 11).

4. Push the drive completely into the slot (callout 2). The drive handle will begin to close onto the drive (callout

3).

5. Push in the handle until you hear a click (callout 4).

Figure 11: Installing a 3.5-inch Drive

Verify that the new drive is operational by examining the LEDs on the front panel, as described in Interpreting

Drive LEDs on page 8. In addition, examine the GUI Member Disks window and the CLI member select show

disks command output.

Removing a Drive Blank

Warning: To maintain proper system cooling, all empty drive bays must have drive blanks installed.