Connectivity And Drive Support; Connector Pinout; Figure 10. Intel® Rmsp3Ad160F Raid Module Sff-8643 Connector - Intel RMSP3AD16OF Hardware User's Manual

Intel® RAID Modules RMSP3AD160F, RMSP3CD080F and RMSP3HD080E Hardware User Guide
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Connectivity and Drive Support

4.1 Connectivity and Drive Support
The Intel® Tri- Mode RAID Modules 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.
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Connector Pinout

The Intel® Tri- Mode RAID Modules 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 module cards.
Figure 10. Intel® RMSP3AD160F RAID Module SFF-8643 connector
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