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Front + rear backplanes: One 24 x 2.5 SAS/SATA expander + one 4 x 2.5 AnyBay

This section provides cable routing information for configuration (one 24 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA expander front drive backplane and one 4 x 2.5-inch AnyBay rear drive backplane) with one 8i RAID/HBA adapter.

8i RAID/HBA adapter

Connections between connectors: 11, 22, 33, ... nn

Figure 1. Signal cable routing

FromTo
1 Front backplane: SAS 01 8i adapter:
  • Gen 4: C0

  • Cen 3: C0C1

2 Front backplane: SAS 12 Rear backplane: SAS
3 Onboard: PCIe 7, 83 Rear backplane: NVMe 0-1, 2-3