IBM System x3100 M4 Problem Determination And Service Guide

7. Remove the hard disk drive fan duct (see “Removing the hard disk drive fan
duct” on page 214).
8. Press and hold the drive cage release tab; then, rotate the drive cage out of
the chassis until the retaining tab on top of the cage locks into place.
Hard disk drive cage
Release tab
9. Disconnect the power, signal and configuration cables from the hard disk drive
backplane.
Signal cables
Power cable
Configuration cable
10. Remove the four screws that secure the SAS/SATA hard disk drive backplane
to the drive cage.
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IBM System x3100 M4 Specifications

General

Memory	Up to 32 GB DDR3 ECC UDIMM
Memory Slots	4 DIMM slots
Form Factor	Tower
Chipset	Intel C202
Processor Sockets	1
Processor	Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2 series, Intel Pentium series, Intel Celeron series
Storage	Up to 4x 3.5-inch
Power Supply	350W
Hard Drive Bays	4 x 3.5"
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 10
Network Interface	Gigabit Ethernet
Expansion Slots	1 x PCIe 3.0 x16, 1 x PCIe 2.0 x4
Operating System Support	Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server