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A customer serviceable, half-blade design media tray directly wired to the BladeCenter HT midplane can be removed without impacting operation of the chassis. This tray includes two external USB connectors and full Light Path Diagnostics and also supports optional 1 GB and 4 GB Compact Flash drive options typically used for local boot of operating system in a telecommunications environment. No optical (CD/DVD) drives are integrated into this tray.