H3C UniServer R4900 G6 Ultra - Drive Backplanes; Front 8 SFF SAS;SATA Drive Backplane

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Fault/UID LED status
Present/Active LED status
Description
rebuilding, or the system is reading or
writing data to the drive.
Off Steady green
The drive is present but no data is being
read or written to the drive.
Off Off The drive is not securely installed.
Drive backplanes
The server supports the following types of drive backplanes:
• SAS/SATA drive backplanes—Support only SAS/SATA drives.
• UniBay drive backplanes—Support both SAS/SATA and NVMe drives. You must connect
both SAS/SATA and NVMe data cables. The number of supported drives varies by drive
cabling.
• X SAS/SATA+Y UniBay drive backplanes—Support SAS/SATA drives in all slots and support
NVMe drives in certain slots.
 X: Number of slots supporting only SAS/SATA drives.
 Y: Number of slots supporting both SAS/SATA and NVMe drives.
For UniBay drive backplanes and X SAS/SATA+Y UniBay drive backplanes:
• The two drive types are supported only when both SAS/SATA and NVMe data cables are
connected.
• The number of supported SAS/SATA drives and the number of supported NVMe drives vary by
cable connection.
Front 8SFF SAS/SATA drive backplane
The PCA-BP-8SFF-2U-G6 8SFF SAS/SATA drive backplane can be installed at the server front to
support eight 2.5-inch SAS/SATA drives.
Figure 26 8SFF SAS/SATA drive backplane
(1) x8 SlimSAS connector (SAS PORT1)
(2) AUX connector (AUX)
(3) Power connector (PWR)