Technical Product Specification

System Storage and Peripheral Drive Bays Intel® Server System R2000IP Product Family TPS
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Label
Description
A
SMBus*-out cable connector – From Server board or other backplane
B
4-port Mini-SAS cable connectors
C
SMBus*-in cable connector for multi-backplane support
D
Power connector
Figure 30. 2.5" Hard Drive Backplane backside
A – 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.
B and D – SMBus* Cable Connectors – The backplane includes two 1x5 cable connectors used
as a management interface between the server board and the installed backplanes. In systems
configured with multiple backplanes, a short jumper cable is attached between backplanes, with
connector B used on the first board and connector D used on the second board, extending the
SMBus* to each installed backplane.
C – Power Harness Connector – The backplane includes a 2x2 connector supplying power to
the backplane. Power is routed to each installed backplane from a multi-connector power cable
harness from the server board.
5.1.2 Cypress* CY8C22545 Enclosure Management Controller
The backplanes support enclosure management using a Cypress* CY8C22545 Programmable
System-on-Chip (PSoC*) device. The CY8C22545 drives the hard drive activity/fault LED, hard
drive present signal, and controls hard drive power-up during system power-on.
5.2 3.5” Hard Disk Drive Support
The server is available in 3.5'' hard disk configurations of 8 and 12 drives as illustrated below.