Figure 54. Installing a NVMe drive bay or ex bay
Next steps
1 Install the backplane to the NVMe drive bay or ex bay.
2 Connect the slim optical drive and the back plane cables.
3 Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.
Optical drives and tape drives
Optical drives and tape drives specications
Your system supports one of the following congurations:
Table 33. System
congurations
System Congurations
Eight 3.5 inch drives or sixteen 2.5 inch drives Up to two SATA slim optical drives and one SAS tape drive
Sixteen 2.5 inch drives and eight NVMe drives One SATA slim optical drive
Systems with up to eighteen 3.5 inch drives One SATA slim optical drive or one SAS tape drive
Systems with up to thirty-two 2.5 inch drives One SATA slim optical drive
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