Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6400 Installation and Service Manual
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6400 overview
- Installing and removing enclosure components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 sled
- Drives
- Power supply units
- System cover
- Backplane cover
- Cooling fans
- Power interposer board
- Chassis management board
- Linking board
- Midplane
- Drive cage
- Backplanes and expander board
- Control panel
- Thermal sensor board
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
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 drive blank.
Steps
1. Press the release button on the front of the drive carrier to open the release handle.
2. Insert and slide the drive carrier into the drive slot.
3. Close the drive carrier release handle until it clicks in place.
Figure 26. Installing a drive carrier
Removing the drive from the drive carrier
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
CAUTION: Mixing drives from previous generations of PowerEdge servers is not supported.
Steps
1. Using a Phillips #1 screwdriver, remove the screws from the slide rails on the drive carrier.
2. Lift the drive out of the drive carrier.
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