Dell PowerEdge T560 Installation and Service Manual

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Drive backplane

Depending on your system configuration, the drive backplanes that are supported are listed here:

Table 1. Supported backplane optionsThis table provides the supported drive options:
System	Supported hard drives options
PowerEdgeT560	2.5-inch (x 8) NVMe backplane
	2.5-inch (x 8) SAS, or SATA backplane
	3.5-inch (x 8) SAS or SATA backplane

This image shows the 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe drive backplane — Figure 1. 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe drive backplane

BP_PWR_CTRL
BP_DST_SA1 (PERC to backplane)
BP_DST_PA1
BP_DST_PB1
BP_DST_PA2
BP_DST_PB2

This image shows the 8 x 2.5-inch drive backplane — Figure 2. 8 x 2.5-inch drive backplane

BP_PWR_CTRL
BP_DST_SA1 (PERC to backplane)
BP_PWR_1 (backplane power and signal cable to system board)
BP_DST_PA1 (PCIe/NVMe connector)

This image shows the 8 x 3.5-inch drive backplane — Figure 3. 8 x 3.5-inch drive backplane

BP_PWR_1 (backplane power and signal cable to system board)