Intel R2000WF series, Technical Product Specification

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Intel® Server System R2000WF Product Family Technical Product Specification
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Power harness connector (connector A) – The backplane includes a 2x2 connector supplying power to the
backplane. Power is routed to the backplane via a power cable harness from the server board
Multi-port mini-SAS HD cable connectors (connectors B and C) – The 8 x drive backplane includes two
multi-port mini-SAS cable connectors, each providing SGPIO and I/O signals for four SAS/SATA hard drives
on the backplane. Cables can be routed from matching connectors on the server board, from add-in
SAS/SATA RAID cards, or from an optionally installed SAS expander card. Each mini-SAS HD connector
includes a silk-screen identifying which drives the connector supports: drives 0-3 and drives 4-7.
I2C cable connector (connector D) – The backplane includes a 1x5 cable connector used as a management
interface to the server board
6.8 12 x 3.5” Drive Hot-Swap Backplane Overview
This section applies to the 12 x 3.5” drive hot-swap backplane (iPC – F2U12X35S3PH).
2U server systems that support the 12 drive backplane have support for the following drive form factors:

3.5” hard drives
 2.5” SSDs using the included drive blanks as a drive bracket
Note : Due to degraded performance and reliability concerns, the use of the 3.5” drive blank as a 2.5” drive
bracket is intended to support SSD type storage devices only. Installing a 2.5” hard disk drive into the 3.5”
drive blank cannot be supported.
Drive technologies supported include:
 6 Gb/s SATA

12 Gb/s SAS
 PCIe* NVMe (up to 2 drives)
Mounted on the front side of the backplane are ten 29-pin (SFF-8482) drive connectors supporting
SAS/SATA drives only, and two 68-pin SFF-8639 drive connectors supporting SAS/SATA/NVMe drives.
Figure 56. 12 x 3.5" hot swap backplane, front side
On the backside of the backplane are connectors for power, I2C management, SAS/SATA data, and PCIe
NVMe.
Note : Letters in parenthesis denote references to connectors on the back side of the backplane as illustrated
in Figure 57.
NVMe Compatible