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Server Chassis P4304XXMFEN2/P4304XXMUXX Product Family System Integration and Service Guide
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The cables used to connect the NVMe add-in card to the 8x2.5” Combo backplane (PCIe SSD Drive
#0~3 Mini-SAS HD cable connector) is shown as below. The backplane connects to the left side of the
cable; the PCIe SSD add-in card connects to the right side of the cable.
Notes:
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On 8x2.5” Combo backplane, the port C, D, E, and F are for PCIe SSD (NVMe). The port B and G are
for regular drives. To use the regular drive bays (port B and G on the 8x2.5 Combo backplane),
follow the instructions in section “Upgrading the Fixed Drive Storage to 4x3.5” or 8x2.5” Hot-swap
Drive Bay Storage” to connect the “minSAS HD to miniSAS HD” cable between the server board
SATA/SAS connectors and the port B and G on the backplane.
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The 8x2.5 SAS/NVMe combo backplane is capable of supporting 12 Gb SAS or 6 Gb SAS/SATA
drives. The SAS/SATA drives are hot-swappable and each drive is mounted to a drive tray with a
green latch. The front side of the backplane includes eight drive interface connectors. All eight
connectors can support regular SATA or SAS drives, but only the first four are capable of
supporting NVMe drives.
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Any combination of NVMe drives and SATA/SAS drives can be supported, as long as the number of
NVMe drives does not exceed four and they are installed into any of the first four drive connectors
on the backplane.
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The NVMe drives are NOT hot-swappable. The system must be powered off to add or replace an
NVMe drives. To identify an NVMe drive in a system where multiple other SAS/SATA devices may
be installed, the NVMe drive tray has a blue latch release.
