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Procedure - Installing drives in the E5512 or E5524 controller-drive tray

About this task

In some situations, the controller-drive tray might be delivered without the drives installed. Follow the steps in this procedure to install the drives. If your controller-drive tray already has drives installed, you can skip this step and go to Step 5 - Connecting the controller-drive tray to the hosts.

Attention: Risk of equipment malfunction – To avoid exceeding the functional and environmental limits, install only drives that have been provided or approved by NetApp, Inc. Drives might be shipped but not installed. System integrators, resellers, system administrators, or users can install the drives.
Note: For the E5512, the installation order is from top to bottom and from left to right. For the E5524, the installation order is from left to right. The installation order is important because the drives might already contain configuration information that depends upon the correct sequence of the drives in the tray.

Steps

  1. Beginning with the first drive slot (the upper-left slot in the E5512 or the left slot in the E5524), place the drive in the slot guides, and slide the drive all the way into the slot.
  2. Push the drive handle to the right (in E5512) or down (in E5524) to lock the drive securely in place.
    • Installing a drive in the E5512 controller-drive tray



      1 Drive handle
    • Installing a drive in the E5524 controller-drive tray



      1 Drive handle
    Note: In some applications, the drive handle might have the hinge on the right.
  3. For the E5512, install the second drive beneath the first drive. For the E5524, install the second drive to the right of the first drive.
  4. For the E5512, install the other drives from top to bottom and then from left to right. For the E5524 , install the other drives to the right.