Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 - Hard Drive Backplane; Hard Drive Backplane Connectors

Next steps
1 Install the expansion card riser 1.
2 Install the air shroud.
3 Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.
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Installing expansion card riser 1
Installing the air shroud
Hard drive backplane
Depending on your system conguration, the hard drive backplanes supported in PowerEdge R740 are listed here:
Table 45. Supported backplane options for PowerEdge R740 systems.
System Supported backplane options
PowerEdge R740
2.5 inch (x16) SAS/SATA backplane, or
2.5 inch (x8) SAS/SATA backplane, or
3.5 inch (x8) SAS/SATA backplane
NOTE: Mixing of 2.5 inch 10K or 15K SAS hard drives with 2.5 inch 7.2K SATA or Nearline SAS hard drives in the same backplane
is not supported.
Hard drive backplane connectors
Figure 81. Back view of 16 x 2.5 inch hard drive backplane
1
signal connector (J_BP_SIG) 2 power connector (J_BP_PWR)
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