Technical Product Specification

Intel® Server System SR1600UR TPS Hard Disk Drive Support
Revision 1.8 Intel order number E45725-010
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Hot-swap drive trays make insertion and extraction of the drive from the system very simple.
Each drive tray has its own dual purpose latching mechanism, which is used to insert and
extract drives from the chassis and lock the tray in place. Each drive tray supports a light pipe
to direct light from the drive status LED, located on the backplane, to the tray’s face plate. This
makes it visible from the front of the system.
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Figure 18. Hot-swap Hard Drive Tray Assembly
6.2 Fixed Mount Hard Drive Support
The Intel
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Server System SR1600UR is able to support up to three fixed mount SATA hard
drives.
In this configuration, the backplane is not installed. Instead, each installed hard drive is
cabled to SATA ports on the server board or an add-in card. Power for each installed hard drive
is provided from the power supply using the P3 backplane connector adapter.
6.3 Hot-swap Hard Drive Support
The Intel
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Server System SR1600UR is able to support up to three hot-swap SATA or SAS
hard drives, depending on the backplane option installed. 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 an add-in SAS/SATA controller are cabled to the backplane.
The active backplane does not require cables to connect the hard drive to the controller
interface. An on-board PCI Express* LSISAS1064E SAS/SAS RAID controller provides the
necessary drive interface.
The following sections describe the features and connections found on both backplane options.