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7mm drives

This section provides cable routing information for the 7mm drives.

Note
The following uses the 7mm drives installed on riser 2 as an example for illustration. The cable routing for 7mm drives installed on riser 1 is similar.

Power cable routing

Figure 1. Power cable routing
Power cable routing

FromTo
1 Power connector on the 7mm backplane7mm power connector on the system board assembly

Signal cable routing

The 7mm drive backplane supports SATA, NVMe, or RAID cable connection.

Figure 2. SATA cable routing
SATA cable routing

FromTo
1 Signal connector on the 7mm drive backplaneM.2/7mm backplane signal connector on the system board assembly
Figure 3. NVMe cable routing
Note
The following illustration shows four NVMe cable connection options, but the four options are mutually exclusive. Select one of them based on your scenario.

NVMe cable routing

FromTo
Signal connector on the 7mm drive backplane1 PCIe 1
2 PCIe 3 (one processor installed)
3 PCIe 8
4 PCIe 10
Figure 4. RAID cable routing
RAID cable routing

FromTo
1 Signal connector on the 7mm drive backplane8i adapter: C0