Lenovo ThinkServer TS430 User Manual page 55

• Connect the SATA hard disk drives to the SATA connectors on the system board. If you connect the SATA
hard disk drives to the system board, you can configure RAID using the configuration utility for the
onboard SATA software RAID.
• Connect the SATA hard disk drives to a required RAID card if a RAID card is installed. For server models
with up to four 3.5-inch SAS hot-swap hard disk drives and one backplane, you need to connect the SAS
hard disk drives to the required RAID card that is installed in the server.
Note: The RAID card supports only the SATA II type of SATA.
Connecting the SATA hard disk drives to the system board
To connect the SATA hard disk drives to the system board, do the following:
1. Using the 450 mm (17.72 inches) mini-SAS signal cable with four SATA ports and one Serial General
Purpose Input/Output (SGPIO) port, connect the mini-SAS connector
connector on the 3.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drive backplane. Connect the four SATA ports
the SATA connector 0 to SATA connector 3 on the system board.
2. Connect the SGPIO port
Notes:
1. The number on the label for each of the four SATA signal cables indicates the sequence to follow when
you are connecting the cables to the corresponding SATA connectors (0-3) on the system board.
SATA signal cable label
2. For information about configuring RAID using the configuration utility for the onboard SATA software
RAID, see "Configuring the onboard SATA software RAID" on page 76.
Figure 26. Mini-SAS signal cable with four SATA ports and one SGPIO port
Connecting the SATA hard disk drives to a required RAID card
The RAID card provides advanced SATA/SAS RAID configurations. If you are using SAS hot-swap hard disk
drives, you must have the RAID card for connecting the SAS hard disk drives. The following cables, which
come with the RAID card, are required:
• One 700 mm (27.56 inches) mini-SAS to mini-SAS signal cable
• One 2-pin 200 mm (7.87 inches) RAID card to system board hard disk drive LED cable
2 to the SATA SGPIO connector on the system board.
P0
P1
P2
P3
1
to the mini-SAS signal cable
System board SATA connector
SATA connector 0
SATA connector 1
SATA connector 2
SATA connector 3
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