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Drives, General installation guidelines – Dell OptiPlex 740 User Manual

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Dell™ Optiplex™ 740 Systems

User's Guide

  

Drives

 

Drives

Your computer supports:

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Two SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives

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One optional floppy drive or Media Card Reader

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Two optical drives

 

General Installation Guidelines

Connect SATA hard drives to the connectors labeled "SATA0" or "SATA1." Connect SATA CD or DVD drives to the connectors labeled "SATA2" or "SATA3" on the
system board (see

System Board Components

for information about mini tower system board connectors).

 

Connecting Drive Cables

When you install a drive, you connect two cables—a DC power cable and a data cable—to the back of the drive and to the system board.

 

Drive Interface Connectors

1

optical drive

2

floppy drive or media card reader

3

hard drive

NOTE:

Connect the first SATA hard drive to the blue SATA0 connector.

 

Serial ATA Connector

1

interface cable connector

2

interface connector