Hard Drives; Removing A Hard Drive Blank - Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 Installation And Service Manual

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Hard drives

Hard drives are supplied in hot swappable hard drive carriers that fit in the hard drive slots.
CAUTION: Before attempting to remove or install a hard drive while the system is running, see the documentation for the storage
controller card to ensure that the host adapter is configured correctly.
CAUTION: Do not turn off or restart your system while a hard drive is being formatted. Doing so can cause a hard drive
failure.
When you format a hard drive, allow enough time for the formatting to complete. Be aware that high-capacity hard drives can take a long
time to format.

Removing a hard drive blank

Prerequisites
1 Follow the safety guidelines listed in
2 If installed, remove the front bezel.
CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, hard-drive blanks must be installed in all empty hard-drive slots.
CAUTION: Mixing hard drive blanks from previous generations of PowerEdge servers is not supported.
Steps
Press the release button, and slide the hard drive blank out of the hard drive slot.
Figure 33. Removing a hard drive blank
Next steps
Install a hard drive or a hard drive blank.
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Removing the optional front bezel
Installing a hard drive blank
Installing a hard drive
80 Installing and removing system components
Safety instructions.