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Installing System Components 85
Figure 3-10. Installing a Hard Drive in a Drive Bracket
NOTICE: SAS drives and SATA drives cannot be mixed in the system. The drives
must be either SATA or SAS hard drives.
NOTE: The SAS or SAS/RAID controller card must be installed in PCIe SLOT2. See
Figure 6-1
.
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Connect the power cable to the hard drive.
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Connect the data cable to the hard drive:
• For connection to the integrated SATA controller (SATA hard drives
only), connect the SATA data cable to the SATA_A (first drive) and
SATA_B (second drive) connectors on the system board. See
Figure 3-11. See Figure 6-1 for the location of the hard drive
connectors on the system board.
• For connection to a SAS or SAS/RAID controller expansion card (SAS
or SATA hard drives), connect the data cables from the controller card
and the power cables as shown in Figure 3-12.
See "Installing a SAS
Controller Card
" on page 111
for instructions about installing the
card.
1 hard drive 2 hard-drive bracket
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