7mm drive backplane

This section provides cable routing information for the 7mm drives.

For the locations of 7mm drive connectors on the processor board, see Processor-board connectors for cable routing for details.

Figure 1. Cable routing for 7mm drives

From	To
1 Power port on the 7mm solid-state drive	1 Left: rear hard drive power connector 1 Right: rear hard drive sideband connector
2 Signal port on the 7mm solid-state drive	2–1 PCIe 8 (for NVMe signal, connected when two processors are installed)
	2–2 7mm/M.2 signal port on the processor board (for SATA signal)
	2–3 PCIe 1 (for NVMe signal, connected when one processor is installed)