Onboard connectors

This topic provides cable routing information for the 8 SAS/SATA + 8 NVMe (Gen 4) configuration with onboard connectors.

Connections between connectors: 1 ↔ 1, 2 ↔ 2, 3 ↔ 3, ... n ↔ n

SAS/SATA cable routing​

Figure 1. SAS/SATA cable routing to onboard SATA connectors

From	To
1 Backplane 1: SAS	Onboard: SATA 0, SATA 1

NVMe cable routing​

Figure 2. Cable routing when two processors installed		Figure 3. Cable routing when one processor installed
From	To	From	To
1 Backplane 2: NVMe 0-1	Onboard: PCIe 8	1 Backplane 2: NVMe 0-1, 2-3	Onboard: PCIe 3, 4
2 Backplane 2: NVMe 2-3	Onboard: PCIe 7	2 Backplane 2: NVMe 4-5	Onboard: PCIe 2
3 Backplane 2: NVMe 4-5, 6-7	Onboard: PCIe 6, 5	3 Backplane 2: NVMe 6-7	Onboard: PCIe 1