3.5-Inch Hard Disk Drive Cable Connection - Lenovo System x3650 M5 Installation And Service Manual

3.5-inch hard disk drive cable connection

The following illustrations show the cabling information for the 3.5-inch drive models.
Important: Make sure all SAS cables are routed lower than the DIMM latches.
8x3.5-inch drive model
The internal routing for the 8x3.5-inch drive model cables.
The following illustration shows the internal routing for the 8x3.5-inch drive model cables.
Note: There might be 3 or 4 power connectors on the system board depending on your configuration.
However, this difference will not affect the cable routing. Follow the following illustrations to complete your
cable routing.
8x3.5-inch simple-swap hard disk drive model
SAS signal cable
Power / configuration
cable
Figure 73. 8x3.5-inch simple-swap hard disk drives with hardware RAID cabling
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