Dell POWEREDGE 840 User Manual

Installing System Components 55
Figure 3-8. Installing or Removing a Hard Drive
Installing a Hard Drive in the Drive Bay
NOTE: Hot-plug capability is supported only when the SAS backplane is installed. For more information, see "Hot-
Plug SATA Hard Drives Using the SAS Backplane" on page 61.
1 Unpack the drive (and controller card, if applicable), and prepare the drive for installation.
For instructions, see the documentation that accompanied the drive.
1 hard-drive bay 2 screws (4 per drive) 3 hard drive
4 drive cable 5 power cable connector 6 hard drive bay
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Dell POWEREDGE 840 Specifications

General

Processor Socket	LGA 775
Chipset	Intel 3000
Memory Slots	4 DIMM slots
Form Factor	Tower
Processor	Intel Xeon
Memory	Up to 8GB DDR2
Drive Bays	4 x 3.5" drive bays
Storage	SATA
RAID Support	PERC 5/i
Network	Embedded Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet
Expansion Slots	2 PCI
Operating System Support	Red Hat Linux