Upgrade and Maintenance Manual TX2560 M2 / RX2560 M2
7.2.13.3 Removing a 2.5-inch HDD/SSD SAS backplane . . . . . . 183
7.2.13.4 Installing a 2.5-inch HDD/SSD SAS backplane . . . . . . . 185
7.2.13.5 Installing the 2.5-inch HDD bay top cover . . . . . . . . . . 187
7.2.13.6 Connecting cables to the backplane 1 . . . . . . . . . . . 189
7.2.13.7 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
7.2.14 Replacing SAS backplanes (configuration with up to
32 HDD/SSD modules) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
7.2.14.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
7.2.14.2 Removing a SAS backplane and the SAS expander holder 191
7.2.14.3 Installing a SAS backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
7.2.14.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
7.2.15 Replacing the SAS expander board (configuration with up to
32 HDD/SSD modules) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
7.2.15.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
7.2.15.2 Removing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
7.2.15.3 Installing the SAS expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
7.2.15.4 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
7.2.16 Upgrading from 8x to 16x 2.5-inch HDD/SSD configurations . . 202
7.2.16.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
7.2.16.2 Removing the 8x 2.5-inch HDD front panel . . . . . . . . . 203
7.2.16.3 Removing the 2.5-inch HDD bay top cover . . . . . . . . . 203
7.2.16.4 Installing the second 2.5-inch HDD/SSD SAS backplane . . 203
7.2.16.5 Installing the 2.5-inch HDD bay top cover . . . . . . . . . . 204
7.2.16.6 Installing the 16x 2.5-inch HDD front panel . . . . . . . . . 204
7.2.16.7 Installing the expander board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
7.2.16.8 Concluding steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
7.3 3.5-inch HDD configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
7.3.1 Equipping the 3.5-inch HDD bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
7.3.2 Backplane overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
7.3.3 Configuration with up to four HDD modules (one backplane) . 207
7.3.4 Configuration with up to eight HDD modules (two backplanes) 208
7.3.5 Configuration with up to 12 HDD modules (three backplanes) . 210
7.3.6 Mixed configuration of 3.5-inch HDD modules and
2.5-inch HDD/SSD modules (three backplanes) . . . . . . . . 212
7.3.7 Mixed configuration of 3.5-inch HDD modules and
2.5-inch PCIe SSDs SFF (four backplanes) . . . . . . . . . . 214
7.3.8 Configuration with non-hot-plug HDDs/SSDs . . . . . . . . . . 216
7.3.9 Installing 3.5-inch HDD modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
7.3.9.1 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
7.3.9.2 Removing a 3.5-inch HDD dummy module . . . . . . . . . 218
7.3.9.3 Installing a 3.5-inch HDD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219