To connect cables for a 7mm drive backplane, refer to “7mm drive backplane” on page 270.
To connect power cables for a backplane for standard 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drives, refer to
“Cable routing for
backplane power” on page 274
.
The following illustration and table show the cabling among the front backplane, the processor board and a
Gen 4 SFF re-timer adapter.
Figure 284. Cable routing of eight AnyBay front drives for both connections onboard and to a Gen 4 SFF re-timer adapter
Table 84. Mapping between one front AnyBay backplane, the processor board and a re-timer adapter
Backplane From To
Front BP (SAS)
1 SAS 0 1 SATA 0
Front BP (NVMe)
2 NVMe 0–1, 2–3
2 PCIe 2, PCIe 1
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