Removing a drive

WARNING: To reduce the risk of personal injury from hot surfaces, allow the drives, power supplies, and internal system components to cool before touching them.
WARNING: To reduce the risk of personal injury or damage to the equipment, adequately stabilize the rack before extending a component outside the rack. Extend only one component at a time. A rack may become unstable if more than one component is extended.
CAUTION: Do not operate the system for long periods with the front drive cages extended. When the front drive cages are extended while the system is powered on, monitor the status of the front drive temp sensor (08-HD Max) in iLO. If the iLO temp sensor (08-HD Max) reading is reporting an N/A value, monitor how long the drive cages have been out of the chassis. Before reaching the 110 second mark, slide the drive cages back into the chassis and keep them there for at least 300 seconds before extending them again.

Failure to observe this caution will result in improper airflow and insufficient cooling that can lead to thermal damage.

CAUTION:

Do not operate the system with any of the front or rear drive cage bays empty. To maintain proper airflow and sufficient cooling, all drive bays in the front and rear cage must have a drive or a drive blank.

Procedure
  1. Back up all system data.
  2. Do one of the following:

    • If removing a drive from the front drive cage and the security bezel is installed, remove the bezel (Remove the bezel).

    • If removing a drive from the internal drive cage, extend the front and internal drive cages out of the chassis (Extend the front drive cages out of the chassis).

    • If removing a drive from the rear drive cage, access the product rear panel.

  3. Depending on the type of drive in the cage, do one of the following:

    • Remove an LFF drive:

      1. Determine the status of the drive from the low profile LFF drive LEDs (Low-profile LFF drive LED definitions).

      2. Wait until the Online/Activity LED stops flashing.

      3. To open the release lever, press the latch.

      4. Pull the release lever to disengage the drive from the backplane, and then slide the drive out of the bay.


        Removing an LFF drive

    • Remove an SFF drive:

      1. Determine the status of the drive from the SFF LEDs (SFF drive components and LEDs).

      2. Wait until the icon in the Do Not Remove button stops flashing and is no longer illuminated.

      3. Press the Do Not Remove button to open the release lever.

      4. Pull the release lever to disengage the drive from the backplane, and then slide the drive out of the bay.


        Removing an SFF drive

    • Remove an NVMe drive (rear drive cage only):

      1. Determine the status of the drive from the NVMe LEDs (NVMe drive components and LEDs).

      2. Press the power button.

        The Do Not Remove button illuminates and flashes.

      3. When the Do Not Remove button stops flashing and the icon on the button is no longer illuminated, press the Do Not Remove button to release the release lever.

      4. Pull the release lever to disengage the drive from the backplane, and slide the drive out of the drive bay.


        Removing an NVMe drive

    • Remove a uFF drive

      1. Observe the LED status of the drive and determine if it can be removed (SFF flash adapter components and LED definitions).

      2. Remove the drive.