Technical Product Specification

System Storage and Peripheral Drive Bays Intel® Server System R2000IP Product Family TPS
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5.3 Optical Drive Support (optional)
Systems configured with eight 3.5” hard drive bays or up to sixteen 2.5” hard drive bays also
include support for an optical drive bay ‘A’ as illustrated below.
Figure 36. Opitcal driver support
5.4 eUSB SSD Suport
The system provides support for an eUSB SSD storage device. A 2x5-pin connector labeled
“eUSB SSD” near the rear I/O section of the server board is used to plug this small flash storage
device.
Figure 37. eUSB SSD Suport
 2 wire small form factor Universal Serial Bus 2.0 (Hi-Speed USB) interface to host.
 Read Speed up to 35 MB/s and write Speed up to 24 MB/s.
 Capacity range from 256GB to 32GB.
 Support USB Mass Storage Class requirements for Boot capability.
5.5 SAS Expander Support Options
The system is designed to support SAS Expander cards for storage configurations that require
more than eight hard disk drives.
The following table outlines the different Intel SAS Expander options available and which one to
use for given hard disk drive configurations.