SSD Hardware replacement

Replacement of SSDs is straight forward but requires unracking and removing PCIe devices

Once unracked remove the top cover by un-screwing the system as follows

Once removed the system looks like the following. The SSDs are located at the following location, shown in RED with the GIGABYTE thermal heatsink

To remove the M.2 SSD drives remove the screwes shown as follows

The PCIe riser is detached from the motherboard

SSD PCIe card is removed from the Riser

SSD PCIe black heatsink is removed from the board

After the PCIe card has been removed, the SSDs are accessible as follows

Remove the screws highlighted in RED above to remove and replace the SSDs

After completing the SSD replacement, reverse the above steps to complete the installation

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