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Safety instructions
Before working inside your system
Removing a hard-drive or SSD cage
Installing the system cover
Installing a blade
After working inside your system
Hard-drive or SSD backplane
Table 25. Hard-drive or SSD backplane configurations
Backplane
Configuration
2.5-inch (x4) SAS
backplane
A full-length SAS hard drive/SSD backplane with a
backplane cable. It supports up to four 2.5-inch SAS
hard drives or SSDs.
2.5-inch (x4) SATA
backplane
A full-length SAS hard drive/SSD backplane with a
backplane cable. It supports up to four 2.5-inch
SATA hard drives or SSDs.
2.5-inch (x2) SATA
and 2.5-inch (x2)
PCIe backplane
A full-length backplane with two backplane cables.
It supports up to two 2.5-inch SATA hard drives or
SSDs and two 2.5-inch PCIe SSDs. For information
about populating drives in the bay, see the Hard
drive or SSD bay numbering.
1.8-inch (x12) SAS
SSD backplane
A full-length SAS SSD backplane with two backplane
cables. It supports up to twelve 1.8-inch SAS SSDs.
NOTE: All drives connect to the system board through the hard-drive or SSD backplane cable
connector.
The following table provides information about connecting different backplane configurations to the
respective connectors on the system board and expander card.
Table 26. Hard-drive or SSD backplane configurations
Drive backplane
configurations
Connectors
SATA_BP connector on the system
board
J_PERC connector on the system
board
2.5-inch (x4) SAS
backplane
-
SAS backplane cable connector that
connects four hard drives or SSDs to
the system board.
2.5 -inch (x4) SATA
backplane
SATA backplane cable connector that
connects four hard drives or SSDs to
the system board.
-
2.5-inch (x2) SATA and
2.5-inch (x2) PCIe
backplane
SATA drive backplane cable
connector that connects two hard
drives or SSDs to the system board.
PCIe drive backplane cable connector
that connects two PCIe SSDs to the
system board.
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