Conectivity And Drive Support; Connectivity And Drive Support; Connector Pinout; Figure 9. Intel® Rmsp3Td160F Raid Adapter Sff-8643 Connector - Intel RSP3TD160 Hardware User's Manual

Intel® RAID Adapters RSP3TD160, RSP3MD088, RSP3DD080 and RSP3WD080 Hardware User Guide
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Conectivity and Drive Support

4.1

Connectivity and Drive Support

The Intel® Tri- Mode RAID Adapters have standard female SFF-8643 (Mini-SAS High-Density) connectors to
connect the drives and are designed for the Intel® Server Boards and Systems for the next-generation Intel®
Xeon® processor product family. Those systems have the appropriate backplane capable of supporting SAS,
SATA and NVMe drives.
4.2

Connector Pinout

The Intel® Tri- Mode RAID Adapters have standard female SFF-8643 (Mini-SAS High-Density) connectors to
connect to drives. The connector pinout follows the SFF-9402 specification. SFF-9402 defines how to share
sideband signals between SAS and PCI Express (NVMe).
When SAS/SATA drives are connected either as a direct attach through an SFF-8680 bay or through an
enclosure, existing 12Gb/s SAS cables and mid-plane connector designs are supported by the RAID module .
The next figure shows the pinout for the female SFF-8643 connectors on the adapter cards.
Figure 9. Intel® RMSP3TD160F RAID Adapter SFF-8643 connector
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