Interface Cables; Installing Two 3.5-Inch Disk Cages - NEC Express5800 User Manual

10-2 Internal Cabling Diagrams

INTERFACE CABLES

An example of the connections of interface cables between devices within the server and external
devices is shown below.

Installing Two 3.5-inch Disk Cages

The figure below shows an example when five or more hard disk drives are to be connected. One of
the connectors on RAID Controller (in PCIe2.0 #2) is connected to the additional disk cage.
Mother board
PCIe2.0 #1
PCIe2.0 #2
PCIe2.0 #3
PCIe2.0 #4
PCIe #5
PCI #6
RAID Controller
SAS cable SATA cable for optical disk drive
5.25-inch
device bay
Optical disk drive
ID7
3.5-inch disk
cage
ID6
ID5
ID4
ID3 3.5-inch disk
cage
ID2
ID1
Hard disk drives
ID0
are optional.