Disk And Media Features - IBM Power Systems S822LC Technical Overview And Introduction

Option
Split backplane
The 2.5-inch or small form factor (SFF) SAS bays can contain SATA drives (HDD or SSD) that
are mounted on a Gen4 tray or carrier (also knows as SFF-4). SFF-2 or SFF-3 drives do not
fit in an SFF-4 bay. All SFF-4 bays support concurrent maintenance or hot-plug capability.
Figure 1-15 shows the server front view with the standard backplane.
Front bezel is removed in this illustration
Figure 1-15 Server front view with SFF-4 locations
Figure 1-16 shows the logical connections of the integrated SATA disk controller.
SATA
SATA
Figure 1-16 Logical diagram for integrated SATA disk controller

1.14.1 Disk and media features

The servers support the attachment of up to two SATA storage devices that are listed on
Table 1-15.
Table 1-15 Supported storage devices
Feature
code
ELD0
28
IBM Power Systems S822LC for High Performance Computing
System Planar
Internal SATA Cable
Description
1 TB 7.2k RPM SATA SFF-4 disk drive
Integrated SATA disk controller
No
Integrated
SATA controller
SFF-4 Carrier
SATA HDD or SSD
SFF-4 Carrier
SATA HDD or SSD
Max OS
support
2 Linux