Drives; Backplane; Backplane Details - Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 Installation And Service Manual

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Backplane

Backplane details

Depending on your system configuration, the drive backplanes supported in PowerEdge R640 are listed here:
Table 61. Supported backplane options for PowerEdge R640 systems
System
PowerEdge R640
NOTE: Mixing of 2.5 inch 10K or 15K SAS drives with 2.5 inch 7.2K SATA or Nearline SAS drives on the same backplane
is not supported. You can mix solid state drives with hard drives on the same backplane.
Figure 91. 4 X 3.5 drive backplane
1. release tab (2)
3. SAS cable B connector
Figure 92. 8 X 2.5 drive backplane
1. release tab (2)
3. backplane signal cable connector
5. SAS cable B connector
Figure 93. 10 X 2.5 drive backplane
1. release tab (2)
3. NVMe cable connector
5. NVMe cable connector
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Supported drives options
2.5 inch (x8) SAS or SATA backplane
2.5 inch (x10) SAS, SATA, or NVMe backplane
2.5 inch (x10) SAS, SATA, or NVMe backplane and 2.5 inch (x2)
SAS or SATA backplane (back)
3.5 inch (x4) SAS or SATA backplane
2. SAS cable A connector
4. backplane signal cable connector
2. SAS cable A connector
4. backplane
6. power cable connector
2. NVMe cable connector
4. NVMe cable connector
6. power cable connector