Dell PowerEdge R940 - Hard Drive Backplanes

Figure 2. PowerEdge R940 back view
1 Half-height PCIe expansion card slot
2 Full-height PCIe expansion slots
3 Ethernet connector (4)
4 Half-height PCIe expansion card slot
5 Power supply unit (2)
6 Video port
7 Serial port
8 iDRAC9 Enterprise port
9 USB port
10 System identication button
11 Status indicator cable port
2.5-in x8 hard drive passive backplane
This passive backplane allows 8x2.5-in SAS/SATA hard drives to be connected to the backplane. As a passive backplane, it does not
support the exible assignment of hard drives to nodes. Each node in the chassis gets equal number of total available hard drives.
Figure 3. Hard drive backplane 2.5-in x8
Chassis views and features
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