Drive Cage; Remove The 2 X 3.5" Drive Backplane And Drive Cage - Lenovo ThinkSystem SR665 V3 User Manual

a. Align the rear drive cage with the chassis, and lower the drive cage into the chassis. Move
the rear drive cage forward until it clicks into position.
b. Twist and release the blue plunger to secure the drive cage in place.
Step 4. Connect cables to the drive backplane. See
After you finish
1. Reinstall the drives or drive fillers into the rear drive cage. See
2. Complete the parts replacement. See
Demo video
Watch the procedure on YouTube

Remove the 2 x 3.5" drive backplane and drive cage

Follow instructions in this section to remove the rear 3.5-inch 2-bay drive backplane and drive cage.
About this task
Attention:
• Read "Installation Guidelines" on page 47
work safely.
• Power off the server and peripheral devices and disconnect the power cords and all external cables. See
"Power off the server" on page
• Prevent exposure to static electricity, which might lead to system halt and loss of data, by keeping static-
sensitive components in their static-protective packages until installation, and handling these devices with
an electrostatic-discharge wrist strap or other grounding system.
• Before you remove or make changes to drives, drive controllers (including controllers that are integrated
on the system board assembly), drive backplanes or drive cables, back up all important data that is stored
on drives.
• Before you remove any component of a RAID array (drive, RAID card, etc.), back up all RAID configuration
information.
• If one or more NVMe solid-state drives are to be removed, it is recommended to disable them beforehand
via the operating system.
Procedure
Step 1. Make preparation for the task.
a. If the server is installed in a rack, slide the server out on its rack slide rails to gain access to the
top cover, or remove the server from the rack. See
b. Remove the top cover. See
c. Disconnect cables from the rear drive backplane.
d. Remove all the installed drives and fillers (if any) from the drive bays. See
drive" on page
Step 2. Remove the rear drive cage.
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"Complete the parts replacement" on page
and "Safety inspection checklist" on page 48
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"Remove the top cover" on page
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Chapter 6 "Internal cable routing" on page
"Install a hot-swap drive" on page
"Remove the server from rack" on page
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to ensure that you
63.
"Remove a hot-swap