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Figure 58. Installing a NVMe drive bay or flex bay
Next steps
1.
Install the backplane to the NVMe drive bay or flex
2. Connect the slim optical drive and the back plane cables.
3. Follow the procedure listed in
Optical drives and tape drives
Optical drives and tape drives specifications
Your system supports one of the following configurations:
Table 35. System configurations
System
Eight 3.5 inch drives or sixteen 2.5 inch drives
Sixteen 2.5 inch drives and eight NVMe drives
Systems with up to eighteen 3.5 inch drives
Systems with up to thirty-two 2.5 inch drives
Removing the optical or tape drive blank
Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in
2. Follow the procedure listed in
3. If installed,
remove the front
bay.
After working inside your system
Safety instructions
Before working inside your system
bezel.
on page 67.
Configurations
Up to two SATA slim optical drives and one SAS tape drive
One SATA slim optical drive
One SATA slim optical drive or one SAS tape drive
One SATA slim optical drive
on page 66.
on page 67.
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