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SAS Drives

To replace a drive, remove the drive carrier from the expansion enclosure and replace the drive in the carrier.
Drives are hot-swappable, which means they can be replaced without powering off the enclosure. Failed disk drives must be
replaced with approved disk drives. See the MD24 Series System Support Matrix for supported disk drives.
NOTE:
● The MD2412 enclosures do not support SATA, SSD, NVMe, vSAS, or 2.5 in. drives.
● The MD2424 enclosures do not support SATA, NVMe, or vSAS drives.
● Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety precautions.
● Follow all guidelines listed in the ESD precautions.
If you insert a SATA drive into the enclosure and then replace it with a SAS drive, the enclosure will not recognize the SAS drive.
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Troubleshooting drives
Removing a drive blank
Prerequisites
● Follow the safety guidelines listed in the
● If installed,
Remove the front
About this task
CAUTION:
To maintain proper system cooling, drive blanks must be installed in all empty drive slots. If you
replace a drive blank with a drive, store the drive blank for future use.
Steps
Press the release button and slide the drive blank out of the drive slot.
Figure 17. Removing a drive blank
Installing a drive blank
Prerequisites
● Follow the safety guidelines listed in the
● If installed,
Remove the front
Steps
Insert the drive blank into the drive slot until the release button clicks into place.
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Replacing components
for information about how to recover from this state.
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