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8 x 2.5''/10 x 2.5'' U.3 drives with 10 x 2.5'' AnyBay backplane

Use this section to understand the cable routing for eight or ten U.3 drives with 10 x 2.5'' AnyBay backplane and one processor installed.

To connect power cables for a backplane for standard 2.5'' or 3.5'' drives, refer to Backplane power cable routing.

To connector cables of RAID flash power modules, refer to RAID flash power modules.

To connect signal cables for a backplane for standard 6 front SAS/SATA drives and 4 front AnyBay drives, refer to the following cable routing scenarios depending on your server configuration:

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 RAID adapter (Gen 4).

Figure 1. Cable routing for 8 x 2.5'' front U.3 drives with an 8i SFF RAID adapter (Gen 4)

Table 1. Mapping between one front AnyBay backplane and an SFF HBA/RAID adapter
BackplaneFromTo
Front BP (SAS)1 SAS 0, SAS 11 C0
Figure 2. Cable routing for 10 x 2.5'' front U.3 drives with an 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