Figure 47. Installing a NVMe drive bay or flex bay
Next steps
1
Install the backplane to the NVMe drive bay or flex bay.
2
Connect the slim optical drive and the back plane cables.
3
Follow the procedure listed in
After working inside your system
.
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Installing a hard drive backplane
Optical drives and tape drives
Your system supports one of the following configurations:
Table 33. System configurations
System
Configurations
Eight 3.5 inch drives or sixteen 2.5 inch drives
Up to two SATA slim optical drives and one SAS tape drive
Sixteen 2.5 inch drives and eight NVMe drives
One SATA slim optical drive
Systems with up to eighteen 3.5 inch drives
One SATA slim optical drive or one SAS tape drive
Systems with up to thirty-two 2.5 inch drives
One SATA slim optical drive
Removing the optical or tape drive blank
Prerequisites
1
Follow the safety guidelines listed in
2
Follow the procedure listed in
Before working inside your system
.
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Installing and removing system components