Hard Drive Backplane; Hard Drive Backplane Connectors - Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 Installation And Service Manual

Next steps
1 Install the expansion card riser 1.
2 Install the air shroud.
3 Follow the procedure listed in
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Installing expansion card riser 1
Installing the air shroud

Hard drive backplane

Depending on your system configuration, the hard drive backplanes supported in PowerEdge R740 are listed here:
Table 45. Supported backplane options for PowerEdge R740 systems.
System
PowerEdge R740
NOTE: Mixing of 2.5 inch 10K or 15K SAS hard drives with 2.5 inch 7.2K SATA or Nearline SAS hard drives in the same backplane
is not supported.

Hard drive backplane connectors

Figure 81. Back view of 16 x 2.5 inch hard drive backplane
1 signal connector (J_BP_SIG)
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Installing and removing system components
After working inside your system.
Supported backplane options
2.5 inch (x16) SAS/SATA backplane, or
2.5 inch (x8) SAS/SATA backplane, or
3.5 inch (x8) SAS/SATA backplane
2 power connector (J_BP_PWR)