
Upgrade and Maintenance Manual RX2530 M4
7.4.7.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
7.4.8 Removing 2.5-inch PCIe SSD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
7.4.8.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
7.4.8.2 Removing a 2.5-inch HDD/SSD module . . . . . . . . . . 165
7.4.8.3 Installing a 2.5-inch HDD/SSD dummy module . . . . . . . 165
7.4.8.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
7.4.9 Replacing 2.5-inch PCIe SSD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
7.4.9.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
7.4.9.2 Removing the defective 2.5-inch PCIe SSD module . . . . 166
7.4.9.3 Installing the new 2.5-inch PCIe SSD module . . . . . . . 167
7.4.9.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
7.4.10 Replacing the 4x 2.5-inch HDD backplane (right side) . . . . . 168
7.4.10.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
7.4.10.2 Removing the defective 4x 2.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . 169
7.4.10.3 Installing the new 4x 2.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . . . . 170
7.4.10.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
7.4.11 Replacing the 4x 2.5-inch HDD backplane (left side) . . . . . . 171
7.4.11.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
7.4.11.2 Removing the defective 4x 2.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . 172
7.4.11.3 Installing the new 4x 2.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . . . . 173
7.4.11.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
7.4.12 Replacing a 10x 2.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 175
7.4.12.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
7.4.12.2 Disconnecting cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
7.4.12.3 Removing the SAS expander board (if applicable) . . . . . 180
7.4.12.4 Removing the defective 10x 2.5-inch HDD backplane . . . 182
7.4.12.5 Installing the new 10x 2.5-inch HDD backplane . . . . . . . 182
7.4.12.6 Installing the SAS expander board (if applicable) . . . . . . 183
7.4.12.7 Connecting cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
7.4.12.8 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
7.4.13 Replacing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
7.4.13.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
7.4.13.2 Removing the defective SAS expander board . . . . . . . 188
7.4.13.3 Installing the new SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . 188
7.4.13.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
7.4.14 Upgrading configuration from up to four to up to eight 2.5-inch
HDDs/SSDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
7.4.14.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
7.4.14.2 Removing the ODD lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
7.4.14.3 Installing the second HDD backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
7.4.14.4 Installing additional HDD/SSD modules . . . . . . . . . . . 191
7.4.14.5 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191