- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- About this document
- Dell Technologies PowerEdge R740xd2 system overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Front bezel
- System cover
- Air shroud
- Internal PERC riser
- Cooling fans
- Intrusion switch
- Drive bay
- Drives
- Removing a drive blank
- Installing a drive blank
- Removing a drive carrier
- Removing the drive from the drive carrier
- Installing a drive carrier
- Installing a drive into the drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5-inch drive from a 3.5-inch drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5-inch drive into a 3.5-inch drive adapter
- Removing a 3.5-inch drive adapter from a 3.5-inch drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5-inch drive adapter into the 3.5-inch drive carrier
- Drive backplane bracket
- Bay intrusion switch
- Rear drive cage
- Drive backplane
- Cable routing
- System memory
- Processor and heat sink
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Removing expansion card from the system board
- Removing expansion card from the expansion card riser
- Installing expansion card into the expansion card riser
- Installing expansion card on the system board
- Removing an expansion card riser
- Installing an expansion card riser
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional IDSDM / vFlash module
- LOM riser card
- System battery
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Power supply units
- Power interposer board
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Cable chain assembly
- Control panel
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd2 Installation and Service Manual
Installing a drive blank
Prerequisites
- Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
- If installed, remove the front bezel.
CAUTION:To maintain proper system cooling, drive blanks must be installed in all empty drive slots.
CAUTION:Mixing drive blanks from previous generations of PowerEdge
servers is not supported.
Steps
Insert the drive blank into the drive slot, and push the blank until the release button clicks into place.Figure 1. Installing a
drive blank 
Next steps
If removed, install the front bezel.
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