Dell PowerEdge 2970 Information Update

Information Update 19
SAS/SATA Backplane Board Connectors
Figure 1-4 shows the location of the connectors on the SAS/SATA backplane
board.
Figure 1-4. SAS Backplane Board Components: 3.5-inch x4 Option
1 primary SAS (SAS_A) 2 optical drive power (CD_PWR)
3 secondary SAS (SAS_B) 4 drive 5 (SASDRV5)
5 backplane power (BP_PWR) 6 drive 4 (SASDRV4)
7 drive 3 (SASDRV3) 8 drive 2 (SASDRV2)
9 drive 1 (SASDRV1) 10 drive 0 (SASDRV0)
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Dell PowerEdge 2970 Specifications

General

Memory Slots	8 DIMM slots
Form Factor	2U Rack
Processor	Dual-Core or Quad-Core AMD Opteron
Memory	Up to 32GB DDR2
Hard Drives	Up to 6 SAS or SATA
Maximum Internal Storage	Up to 6 TB
RAID Controller	PERC 5/i
Network Interface	Dual Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet
Operating System Support	Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server