Installing hard drives - Servers and IntelliStation

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The server supports two 1-inch (26 mm) slim 3.5-inch low voltage differential (LVD) hard disk drives. If you can hot-swap hard disk drives.

Note: You can hot-swap a hard disk drive only if a ServeRAID adapter configured as RAID1 is installed in the system. If you use any other ServeRAID or SCSI configuration, you cannot hot-swap the hard disk drive.

Each hard disk drive tray has a status and an activity light located on the upper-right corner of tray These lights are used to show when there is drive activity or, in some cases, when there is a problem with the hard disk drive.

• The drive must be a low voltage differential drive (LVD), and have a single connector attached (SCA) connector.
• The hard disk drive bays connect to a SCSI backplane .
• This backplane is the printed circuit board behind the bay and is connected to J4 on the system board.
• The backplane controls the SCSI IDs for the hard disk drives.

Before you install a hard disk drive, review the following.

• Inspect the drive tray for any signs of damage.
• Ensure that the drive is installed properly in the tray.
• To maintain proper system cooling, do not operate the server for more than two minutes without either a drive or a filler panel installed in each bay.
• If the server has a ServeRAID adapter installed; refer to the documentation provided with the ServeRAID adapter for information about adding a drive.
• Check the instructions that come with the drive for more information about installing the drive.

Refer to the following illustration to install a hard disk drive:

Note: The illustrations in this document might differ slightly from the hardware.

WARNING: When you handle electrostatic discharge (ESD) sensitive devices,take precautions to avoid damage from static electricity.

1. Turn off the server and all attached devices, and disconnect all external cables and power cords.
2. Remove the filler panel or defective hard drive from one of the hard disk drive bays.
3. Install the new hard disk drive in the drive bay:
   1. Ensure the tray handle is open (that is, perpendicular to the drive).
   2. Align the rails on the drive assembly with the guide rails in the drive bay.
   3. Gently push the drive assembly into the bay until the drive connects to the backplane.
   4. Push the tray handle toward the closed position until it locks the drive in place.
      
      
4. Reconnect the external cables and power cords; then, turn on the server.
5. Check the hard disk drive status indicators to verify that the hard disk drives are operating properly.
   1. When the green light flashes rapidly (three flashes per second), the controller is identifying the drive.
      
      Note: Replacing a hard disk drive is done in the same manner as installing a new hard disk drive.

If the server has a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (ServeRAID) adapter installed, you can hot-swap drives.