Remove A Hot-Swap Drive - Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Certified Node 2U User Manual

• The term "hot-swap drive" refers to all the supported types of hot-swap hard disk drives, hot-swap solid-
state drives, and hot-swap NVMe drives.
• Use any documentation that comes with the drive and follow those instructions in addition to the
instructions in this topic. Ensure that you have all the cables and other equipment that are specified in the
documentation that comes with the drive.
• The electromagnetic interference (EMI) integrity and cooling of the server are protected by having all drive
bays covered or occupied. The vacant bays are either covered by an EMI-protective panel or occupied by
drive fillers. When installing a drive, save the removed drive filler in case that you later remove the drive
and need the drive filler to cover the place.
• To avoid damage to the drive connectors, ensure that the top cover is in place and fully closed whenever
you install or remove a drive.

Remove a hot-swap drive

Use this information to remove a hot-swap drive.
Chapter 4 "Read
the
installation
Guidelines" on
page 27
Before removing a hot-swap drive:
1. If one or more NVMe drives are to be removed, it is recommended to disable them first in Safely Remove
Hardware and Eject Media (Windows) or filesystem (Linux). See the labels above the drive bays to
determine the type of the drive to remove. If the drive bay numbers come with the term "NVMe," it
indicates that the installed drives are NVMe drives.
2. If the security bezel is installed, remove it. See "Remove the security bezel" on page 83.
Attention: To ensure that there is adequate system cooling, do not operate the server for more than two
minutes without either a drive or a drive filler installed in each bay.
To remove a hot-swap drive, complete the following steps:
"ATTENTION:
Static Sensitive Device
Ground package before opening"
on page 29
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