Use this information to remove a hot-swap solid-state drive.
This section applies to 7mm 2.5-inch SATA/NVMe and 15mm 2.5-inch NVMe
solid-state drives.
About this task
Attention:
Read the Installation Guidelines to ensure that you work safely.
To make sure that there is adequate system cooling, do not
operate the solution for more than two minutes without either a drive
or a filler installed in each bay.
Before you remove or make changes to drives, drive controllers
(including controllers that are integrated on the system board), drive
backplanes or drive cables, back up all important data that is stored
on drives.
Watch the procedure
- A video of this procedure is available at YouTube.
Procedure
- Make sure that you have saved the data on your drive before
removing it from the compute node.
- Based on your configuration,
follow the corresponding procedures to remove a 7mm 2.5-inch SATA/NVMe
or 15mm 2.5-inch NVMe solid-state drive.
Remove a 7mm 2.5-inch SATA/NVMe solid-state drive:
Slide the latch to unlock the drive handle.
Grasp the handle and slide the drive out of the drive bay.
Figure 1. 7mm solid-state drive removal
Remove a 15mm 2.5-inch NVMe solid-state drive:
Slide the latch to unlock the drive handle.
Grasp the handle and slide the drive out of the drive bay.
Figure 2. 15mm solid-state drive removal
- Place the drive(s) on the static protective surface to
be installed back into the drive cage assembly if needed.