- 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
Removing the rear drive cage
Prerequisites
- Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.
- Power off the system and all attached peripherals.
- Disconnect the system from the electrical outlet, and disconnect the peripherals.
- Open the drive bays, remove all drives, and then close the drive bays.
- Remove the power supply units.
- Remove the system from the rack and place it on an ESD work bench. For more information, see the Rail Installation Guide available at https://www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals.
- Remove the system cover.
- Remove the air shroud.
- Remove the rear drives.
- Disconnect all the cables from the rear drive backplane.
Steps
- Using Phillips #2 screwdriver, loosen the screws that secure the drive cage to the system.
- Disengage the rear drive cage from the chassis by pushing it towards the front of the system and lift the drive cage away from the system.
Figure 1. Removing the rear drive cage 
Next steps
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