Technical Product Specification

System Storage and Periferal Options Intel
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Server System R1000SP Product Family TPS
40 Intel Order Number G64249-002 Revision 2.0
Figure 36. Installing 2.5" Drive Hot-Swap Backplane
Eight hard disk drive interface connectors are mounted on the front side of each backplane (see
letter A), each providing both power and I/O signals to the attached hard disk drives.
Figure 37. Hard Disk Drive Interface Front Connectors
Several connectors are there on the backside of each backplane. The following illustration
identifies each.
Label
Description
A
Power connector
B
4-port Mini-SAS cable connectors
C
SMBus*-In cable connector – From Server board
Figure 38. Hard Disk Drive Interface Rear Connectors
A – Power Harness Connector – The backplane includes a 2x2 connector supplying power to
the backplane. Power is routed to the backplane through a power cable harness from the
server board.
B – Multi-port Mini-SAS Cable Connectors – The backplane includes two multi-port mini-SAS
cable connectors, each providing I/O signals for four SAS/SATA hard drives on the backplane.
Cables can be routed from matching connectors on the server board, add-in SAS/SATA RAID
cards, or optionally installed SAS expander cards.