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

Use this section to understand the cable routing of eight 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 onboard configuration of 8 x 2.5-inch front SAS/SATA drive bays. Connections between connectors: 1 ↔ 1, 2 ↔ 2, 3 ↔ 3, ... n ↔ n.

Figure 1. Cable routing for onboard configuration of 8 x 2.5 SAS/SATA front drives

Table 1. Mapping between one front SAS/SATA backplane and processor board for onboard configuration
BackplaneFromTo
Front BP (SAS)1 SAS 01 SATA 0
2 SAS 12 SATA 1

Cable routing with an SFF HBA/RAID adapter​

The following illustrations and tables show the mapping relationship between backplane connectors and an 8i or 16i SFF HBA/RAID adapter (Gen 3 or Gen 4).

Figure 2. Cable routing for 8 x 2.5-inch front SAS/SATA drive bays with an 8i SFF RAID adapter (Gen 4)

Table 2. Mapping between one front SAS/SATA backplane and an SFF HBA/RAID adapter
BackplaneFromTo
Front BP (SAS)1 SAS 0, SAS 11 C0
Figure 3. Cable routing for 8 x 2.5-inch front SAS/SATA drive bays with an 8i or 16i SFF RAID adapter (Gen 3)

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