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10 x 2.5'' SAS/SATA (liquid cooling)

Use this section to understand the cable routing of 10 SAS/SATA front drives for liquid cooling configuration with 10 x 2.5'' AnyBay front backplane installed.

To connect cables for a 7mm drive backplane, refer to 7mm drive backplane.

To connect power cables for a backplane for standard 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drives, refer to Cable routing for backplane power.

To connect signal cables for a backplane for standard 4 x 3.5-inch front drives, refer to the following cable routing scenarios depending on your server configuration:

Cable routing for onboard configuration​

The following illustrations and tables show the mapping relationship between backplane connectors and processor board connectors for onboard configuration.

The following figure illustrates the cable routing for the configuration of 10 front SAS/SATA drives bays. Connections between connectors: 1 ↔ 1, 2 ↔ 2, 3 ↔ 3, ... n ↔ n.

Figure 1. Cable routing for onboard configuration of 10 x 2.5 SAS/SATA front drives

Table 1. Mapping between one front AnyBay backplane and processor board for onboard configuration
BackplaneFromTo
Front BP (SAS)1 SAS 01 SATA 0
2 SAS 1, SAS 22 SATA 1, SATA 2

Cable routing with an SFF HBA/RAID adapter​

The following tables show the mapping relationship between backplane connectors and a 16i SFF HBA/RAID adapter (Gen 3 or Gen 4).

Figure 2. Cable routing for 10 front SAS/SATA drives bays with a 16i SFF RAID adapter (Gen 4)

Table 2. Mapping between one front AnyBay backplane and an SFF HBA/RAID adapter
BackplaneFromTo
Front BP (SAS)1 SAS 0, SAS 11 C0
2 SAS 22 C1
Figure 3. Cable routing for 10 front SAS/SATA drives bays with a 16i SFF RAID adapter (Gen 3)

Table 3. Mapping between one front AnyBay backplane and an SFF HBA/RAID adapter
BackplaneFromTo
Front BP (SAS)1 SAS 0, SAS 11 C0, C1
2 SAS 22 C2