Drive Backplane; Drive Backplane Connectors - Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 Installation And Service Manual

Figure 43. Installing a drive into the drive carrier

Drive backplane

Drive backplane connectors

Depending on the configuration, your system supports the following backplanes:
Table 19. Supported drive backplane options for the PowerEdge R940 system
Backplane
8 x 2.5 inch drive backplane
24 x 2.5 inch drive backplane
24 x 2.5 inch drive backplane
24 x 2.5 inch drive backplane
Description
Up to eight 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) front accessible
drives in slots 0 through 7
Up to twenty four 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) front
accessible drives in slots 0 through 23
Up to twenty SAS + 4 NVMe SAS/SATA drives in slots 0 to 19 + slots
20 to 23
Up to sixteen SAS + 8 NVMe SAS/SATA drives in slots 0 to 15 + slots
16 to 23
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