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YoucanpurchasethesupportedoptionfromLenovoandinstallitinyourservertoenabledesiredfunctions.

ForalistofThinkServeroptions,goto:

http://lenovoquickpick.com/usa/home/thinkserver/rack-and-tower-server

Note:Theoptionkitisdesignedfordifferenttypesofserversandmightcontainadditionalcablesthatare

notrequiredforyourserver.

HostBusAdapter

TheHostBusAdapterisusedtoconnectyourservertoexternalstoragedevices,suchasastoragearray.

AnyRAIDadapter

YourserversupportsthefollowingAnyRAIDadapters(supportedtypevariesbyservermodel):

•LenovoThinkServerRAID110iAnyRAIDAdapter(alsocalledpass-throughboard)

•LenovoThinkServerRAID510iAnyRAIDAdapter

•LenovoThinkServerRAID720iAnyRAIDAdapter

•LenovoThinkServerRAID720ixAnyRAIDAdapter

ThefollowingillustrationshelpyoulocatetheconnectorsontheAnyRAIDadapters.

Note:Dependingontheconﬁguration,theAnyRAIDadapterinstalledinyourservermightlookslightly

differentfromtheillustrationsinthistopic.

LenovoThinkServerRAID110iAnyRAIDAdapter

TheLenovoThinkServerRAID110iAnyRAIDAdapterisusedtoprovideSATAsoftwareRAIDfunction.The

followingillustrationshowstheconnectorsontheadapter.

Figure14.LenovoThinkServerRAID110iAnyRAIDAdapter

1SATAconnector0-3

UsedtoconnecttotheSATAconnector0(ports0-3)onthesystemboard.See“Systemboardcomponents”

onpage36.

2SATAconnector4-7

UsedtoconnecttotheSATAconnector1(ports4-7)onthesystemboard.See“Systemboardcomponents”

onpage36.

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