Midplane Power Cable Routing; Drive Cage; Removing The 2.5 Inch Drive Cage - Dell EMC PowerEdge R6400 Installation And Service Manual

Midplane power cable routing

Figure 51. Midplane power cable routing from power interposer board
1 left midplane
3 GND cable for left midplane
5 +12 V power cable for right midplane
7 right midplane

Drive cage

The drive cage contains the drives, the backplane, and the expander board.
The drive cage supports the following drive configurations:
• up to 24 x 2.5 inch SAS or SATA drives
• up to 8 x 2.5 inch NVMe drives, with 16 x 2.5 inch SAS or SATA drives
• up to 12 x 3.5 inch SAS or SATA drives
• diskless no backplane

Removing the 2.5 inch drive cage

Prerequisites
CAUTION: To prevent damage to the drives and backplane, you must remove the drives from the system before removing the
backplane.
2 +12 V power cable for left midplane
4 power interposer board
6 GND cable for right midplane
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