76 Options Guide TX300 S6
Installing expansion cards Expansion cards and BBU
8.1 Installing expansion cards
The system board has seven PCI Express slots. Slots 1-5 are connected as x4
interfaces, whereby slot 3 and slot 5 are used as x8 interfaces if slot 2 and slot 4
are empty.
I Slot 1 is the preferred slot for the SAS/SATA RAID controller (bootable).
Figure 48: Arrangement of the PCIe slots
I For more information see the Technical Manual of the system board
D2619-N.
Slot Description
1 PCIe x4 for SAS/SATA RAID controller
2PCIe x4
3 PCIe x4 (PCIe x8, if slot 2 is empty)
4PCIe x4
5 PCIe x4 (PCIe x8, if slot 4 is empty)
6PCIe x8
7PCIe x8
Slot 3 PCIe
Slot 4 PCIe
Slot 5 PCIe
Slot 6 PCIe
Slot 7 PCIe
Slot 1 PCIe
Slot 2 PCIe
x4
x4
x4
x4
x4
x8
x8
x8
empty
x8
empty
CPU 2
CPU 2 DIMM 1F
CPU 2 DIMM 2F
CPU 2 DIMM 1D
CPU 2 DIMM 3E
CPU 2 DIMM 2E
CPU 2 DIMM 1E
CPU 2 DIMM 3F
CPU 2 DIMM 3D
CPU 2 DIMM 2D