Hot-swap-drive backplane
Use the section to understand the cable routing for hot-swap-drive backplanes.
This topic contains the following information:
• “Server models with sixteen 2.5-inch hot-swap drives” on page 35
• “Server models with twenty 2.5-inch hot-swap drives” on page 40
• “Server models with eight 3.5-inch hot-swap drives” on page 46
• “Server models with eight 3.5-inch hot-swap drives and four 2.5-inch hot-swap drives” on page 47
Before you route cables for backplanes, observe the following guidelines when select a PCIe slot:
• The NVMe adapter can be installed only in PCIe slot 2.
• Internal RAID adapters can be installed in either PCIe slot 1 or PCIe slot 2.
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