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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
FromTo
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 backplane2 PCIe connector 9 on the processor board

7mm RAID NVMe 2-bay backplanes​

Figure 2. Cable routing for 7mm RAID NVMe 2-bay backplanes
Cable routing for 7mm NVMe drives
FromTo
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 backplane2 7mm backplane signal connector on the processor board

7mm RAID SATA/NVMe 2-bay backplanes​

Figure 3. Cable routing for 7mm RAID SATA/NVMe 2-bay backplanes
Cable routing for 7mm NVMe drives
FromTo
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 backplane2 7mm backplane signal connector on the processor board

7mm SATA/NVMe drives to SFF RAID adapter​

Note
This cable routing is only applicable to the following backplanes:

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

  • 7mm RAID NVMe 2-bay backplanes

Figure 4. Cable routing for 7mm SATA/NVMe drives and an 8i SFF RAID adapter (Gen 3 or Gen 4)
Cable routing for 7mm SATA/NVMe drives and an 8i SFF RAID card (Gen 3 or Gen 4)
FromTo
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 backplane2 SFF RAID connector

  • Gen 3: C0, C1 (connected to 7mm SATA drives)

  • Gen 4: C0 (connected to 7mm NVMe drives)