Intel® Server System R2000WF Product Family Technical Product Specification
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The 3.5” drive backplanes are fixed mounted to the back of the drive bay within the chassis (as shown in the
following diagram).
Figure 48. 3.5" backplane placement
All 2.5” drive backplane options are mounted to a drive bay module that either slide into open bays within
the front of the chassis or is mounted to a fixed mount bay in the rear of the chassis as shown below.
Figure 49. 2.5" drive bay module placement options
Backplanes include the following features:
12 Gb SAS and 6 Gb SAS/SATA or slower support
Drive interface connectors
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29-pin SFF-8680 – SATA/SAS only
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68-pin SFF-8639 – SATA/SAS/NVMe – NVMe compatible backplanes only
Hot swap drive support
Cable connectors
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SFF-8643 Mini-SAS HD – 2.5” and 3.5” backplanes – 12 Gb SAS capable
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OCuLink PCIe* interface – NVMe compatible backplanes only
o
1x5-pin connector – I2C interface for device status communication to the BMC over slave
SMBus
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2x2-pin connector – power
SGPIO SFF-8485 interface embedded within the sideband of the mini-SAS HD connectors
HSBP microcontroller – Cypress* CY8C22545-24AXI PSoC* Programmable System-on-Chip device