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Common drive cables are used by only NVMe drives.
Figure 15. Cable routing, NVMe drive cables (lower tray)
Table 39. Cable routing, NVMe drive cables (lower tray)
Cable
Drive backplane 1 NVMe
1
Drive backplane 2 NVMe
2
Drive backplane 3 NVMe
3
Drive cable routing (upper tray)
Cable routing for drive components is different for SAS and NVMe drives:
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Routing
• From: Upper system board in lower compute tray, "PCIe/NVMe" connector (see
"System-board connectors" on page 283)
• To: Drive backplane 1, connector "NVMe" (see "Drive backplane connectors" on
page 291)
• From: Upper system board in lower compute tray, "NVMe" connector (see "System-
board connectors" on page 283)
• To: Drive backplane 2, connector "NVMe" (see "Drive backplane connectors" on
page 291)
• From: Lower system board in lower compute tray, "NVMe" connector (see "System-
board connectors" on page 283)
• To: Drive backplane 3, connector "NVMe" (see "Drive backplane connectors" on
page 291)