d. Close the cable management holder.
13. If you are installing an expansion board in the PCI riser cage, install it now.
14. Install the air baffle.
15. Install the access panel.
16. Install the server into the rack.
17. Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends installing at least one drive in the rear drive cage.
Populate drive bays based on the drive numbering sequence. Start from the drive bay with the lowest
device number.
18. Power up the server.
Six-bay SFF hot-plug rear drive cage option
This drive cage option supports SFF SAS and SATA HPE SmartDrives. These drives are assigned the drive
numbers 49–54.
The six-bay SFF rear drive backplane has the following cable connectors:
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Six-bay SFF hot-plug rear drive cage option