Technical Product Specification

Hard Disk Drive Support Intel® Server System SR1560SF TPS
Revision 1.2
Intel order number D92959-006
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Figure 20. Hot-Swap Hard Drive Tray Assembly
6.2 Fixed Mount Hard Drive Support
One option of the Intel
®
Server System SR1560SF is able to support up to two fixed mount
SATA hard drives. In this configuration, there is no backplane installed. Instead, each installed
hard drive is cabled to SATA ports on the server board or add-in card. Power for each installed
hard drive is provided using the P5 and P6 power cable harnesses from the power supply. The
third drive bay is unused in this system configuration but must be populated with a drive tray
and drive blank installed.
6.3 Hot-Swap Hard Drive Support
One option of the Intel
®
Server System SR1560SF is able to support up to three hot-swap SATA
or SAS hard drives, depending on the backplane option installed. Two backplane kits are
available for use in this system; a passive SATA backplane (
Intel Product Code -
ASR1500PASBP
) and an active SAS/SAS RAID backplane (Intel Product Code -
ASR1500SASBP
). Hard drives interface with the backplane through a blind mate connection
when drives are installed into a hard drive bay using a hot-swap drive tray.
The passive backplane option acts as an intermediate ‘pass-through’ interface board where
SATA ports of the server board or add-in SAS/SATA controller are cabled to the backplane. The
active backplane requires no hard drive to controller interface cables. An on-board PCI Express*
LSI* 1064-E SAS/SAS RAID controller provides the necessary drive interface.
The following sections describe the feature and connections found on both backplane options: