Installation and Service Manual

Table Of Contents
Figure 44. Installing a drive into the drive carrier
Next steps
1. Install the drive carrier.
Drive backplane
This is a service technician replaceable part only.
Drive backplane
Depending on your system configuration, the drive backplanes supported are listed here:
Table 13. Supported backplane options
System Supported drives options
PowerEdge R750xs
16 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA + 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe backplane
16 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA backplane
12 x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA backplane + 2 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA
or NVMe (optional rear drive module)
8 x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA backplane
8 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA backplane
8 x 2.5-inch NVMe backplane
54 Installing and removing system components