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 System-board-assembly connectors for details.

7mm non-RAID SATA/NVMe 2-bay backplanes

Figure 1. Cable routing for 7mm non-RAID SATA/NVMe 2-bay backplanes
Cable routing for 7mm SATA drives

From	To
`1` Power connector on the 7mm drive backplane	`1` Left: GPU/7mm/Rear backplane power connector on the processor board `1` Right: 7mm/Rear backplane sideband connector on the processor board
`2` Signal connector on the 7mm drive backplane	`2` PCIe connector 9 on the processor board

Figure 2. Cable routing for 7mm RAID NVMe 2-bay backplanes
Cable routing for 7mm NVMe drives

From	To
`1` Power connector on the 7mm drive backplane	`1` Left: GPU/7mm/Rear backplane power connector on the processor board `1` Right: 7mm/Rear backplane sideband connector on the processor board
`2` Signal connector on the 7mm drive backplane	`2` 7mm backplane signal connector on the processor board

Figure 3. Cable routing for 7mm RAID SATA/NVMe 2-bay backplanes
Cable routing for 7mm NVMe drives

From	To
`1` Power connector on the 7mm drive backplane	`1` Left: GPU/7mm/Rear backplane power connector on the processor board `1` Right: 7mm/Rear backplane sideband connector on the processor board
`2` Signal connector on the 7mm drive backplane	`2` 7mm backplane signal connector on the processor board

Note

This cable routing is only applicable to the following backplanes:

Figure 4. Cable routing for 7mm SATA/NVMe drives and an 8i SFF RAID adapter (Gen 3 or Gen 4)

From	To
`1` Power connector on the 7mm drive backplane	`1` Left: GPU/7mm/Rear backplane power connector on the processor board `1` Right: 7mm/Rear backplane sideband connector on the processor board
`2` Signal connector on the 7mm drive backplane	`2` SFF RAID connector Gen 3: C0, C1 (connected to 7mm SATA drives) Gen 4: C0 (connected to 7mm NVMe drives)

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