Express Bay drive cage

The high-performance fan option (part number 719079-B21) must be installed when installing this option.

With the 6SFF Express bay Enablement option installed, the server supports SAS drives, SATA drives, SSDs, and NVMe drives in the following locations:

  • Optional 2SFF drive cage installed either in Universal media bay 1 or at the rear of the server supports SFF SAS drives, SATA drives, or SSDs.
  • 8SFF drive cage (bays 1 to 8) installed in box 1 supports SFF SAS drives, SATA drives, or SSDs.
  • 6SFF Express Bay Enablement option (bays 1 to 6) installed in Universal media bay 2 (box 2) supports SFF NVMe drives.

For more information about NVMe SSDs, see the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website. For more information on supported drives, see the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website. For more information on which bays support NVMe drives, see "Device numbers."