12 x 2.5'' NVMe (one or two processors)

See this section to understand the cable routing of 12 front NVMe drives with 10 x 2.5'' backplane installed.

Figure 1. Cable routing for onboard configuration of 12 x 2.5'' NVMe front drives

Backplane	From	To
Front backplane	1 NVMe 0–1	1 PCIe 6
	2 NVMe 2–3	2 PCIe 5
	3 NVMe 4–5	3 PCIe 4
	4 Power	4 Power connector 2_A
	5 NVMe 6–7	5 PCIe 3
	6 NVMe 8–9	6 PCIe 2
Rear backplane	7 Power	7 Power on Power & PCIe connector 15
	8 NVMe	8 Signal on Power & PCIe connector 9