Figure 354. Cable routing for six front SAS/SATA and four front AnyBay drives with a 16i CFF HBA/RAID adapter (Gen 4)
and two rear SAS/SATA drives installed
Table 161. Mapping between one front AnyBay and one rear SAS/SATA backplane and a CFF HBA/RAID adapter
Backplane/adapter
From To
Front BP (SAS)
1 SAS 0–3 1 C0
2 SAS 4–7 2 C1
3 SAS 8–9 3 C2
CFF RAID adapter
4 MB input
4 PCIe 3
5 C3 5 SAS (rear)
Front BP (power)
6 Power and sideband
6 Power port for front BP
Front BP (NVMe)
7 NVMe 6–7
7 PCIe 2
8 NVMe 8–9
8 PCIe 1
6 x 2.5'' SAS/SATA + 2 x 2.5'' AnyBay + 2 x 2.5'' NVMe (Gen 5)
See this section to understand the cable routing of six front SAS/SATA drives, two front AnyBay drives and
two front NVMe drives with the 10 x 2.5'' AnyBay backplane (Gen 5) installed.
To connect cables for a 7mm drive backplane, refer to
“7mm drive backplane” on page 270.
To connect cables for M.2 drives, refer to
“M.2 drive backplane” on page 267.
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