Eight-bay SFF front drive cage cabling

Bay 1 installation

  1. Connect the power cable using one of the following connections:
    • Single cable connection
      Connecting 8 SFF single power cable
    • Y cable connection if the two-bay SFF drive cage option is installed in the rear bay
      Connecting 8 SFF Y power cable
  2. Connect the data cable using one of the following connections:
    • Connect to a PCI expansion board
      Connecting 8 SFF data cable to PCI expansion board
    • Connect to an HPE 12G SAS Expander Card
      Connecting cables from SAS expander to 24 SFF drives

Bay 2 installation

  1. Connect the power cable.
    Connecting second bay 8 SFF single power cable
  2. Connect the data cable using one of the following connections:
    • Connect to a PCI expansion board
      Connecting second bay 8 SFF data cable to PCI card
    • Connect to an HPE 12G SAS Expander Card
      Connecting second bay 8 SFF data cable to the SAS expander card