8-2
8SFF SAS/SATA drive cabling
Figure 8-2 8SFF SAS/SATA drive backplane connected to the main board
(1) and (3) AUX signal cables (2) and (4) Power cords
(5) SAS/SATA data cable 1 (for drive cage bay 2/4) (6) SAS/SATA data cable 2 (for drive cage bay 1/3)
8SFF NVMe drive cabling
To install 8SFF NVMe drives, you must install an 8-port NVMe SSD expander module to riser card 0
in the compute module.
When connecting NVMe data cables, make sure you connect the corresponding peer ports with the
correct NVMe data cable, as shown in Figure 8-3.
Figure 8-3
8SFF NVMe drive backplane connected to the main board
(1) and (5) AUX signal cables (2) and (6) Power cords (3) and (4) NVMe data cables