8 x 3.5-inch front drive bays (SAS/SATA)
This section provides cable routing information for the server model with 8 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA front drive 
bays.
The server model is configured with one 8 x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA front drive backplane. Below lists all 
supported configurations with this front drive backplane.
Configuration
Storage controller
Qty. Type
Config. 1
Config. 2
1 SFF 8i RAID/HBA
The following table shows the cable connections for all configurations:
Configuration 1 and 2: (front drive bays only)
Front: one 8 x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA backplanes
Con-
fig.
Front BP
System board
Storage controller 
SFF 16i RAID/HBA
1
SAS 0 PCIe 1
SAS 1 PCIe 2
2
SAS 0, SAS 1
Gen 4: C 0
Gen3: C 0, C 1
The following illustration shows the cable routing for the configuration 2, the routing for configurations 1 is 
similar. Connections between connectors: 
1  ↔  1 ,  2  ↔  2 ,  3  ↔  3 , ...  n  ↔  n
Note: For models that support Gen 3 and Gen4 adapters at the same slot, the illustration shows only the 
cable routing information for Gen 4 adapters, the routing and connector information is similar for Gen 3 
adapters. 
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