1. 8 drive bays, all SAS/SATA
In this drive bay configuration, all eight drives are connected to one 8-port SAS/SATA RAID adapter or HBA
using two backplane cables, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 7. Adapter and cabling for 8x drive bays, all SAS/SATA
2. 8 drive bays, where 4 are AnyBay
In 8-drive bay configurations where four of those drive bays are AnyBay drive bays, possible adapter and
cabling configurations are shown in the following figure.
When only two processors are selected, a NVMe Switch Adapter is used to provide the four needed NVMe
ports. When four processors are selected, the NVMe ports on the Processor and Memory Expansion Tray
are used to connect to the NVMe connectors on the backplane.
In this configuration you can have up to eight SAS or SATA drives, or you can instead put up to four NVMe
drives in the AnyBay drive bays, along with up to four SAS/SATA drives in the other drive bays.
Figure 8. Adapter and cabling for 8 drive bays, where 4 of the bays are AnyBay
3. 16 drive bays, all SAS/SATA
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