Front side: 24 x 3.5" or 2.5" SATA/SAS hot-swappable HDD/SSD bays
Rear side: 12 x 3.5" or 2.5" SATA/SAS hot-swappable HDD/SSD bays
Rear side bays:
2 x 2.5" SATA/SAS hot-swappable SSD bays*
4 x 2.5" SATA/SAS/NVMe hybrid hot-swappable SSD bays*
NOTE:
* Rear side 2.5" bays support Solid State Drives only due to thermal consideration
2 x Broadcom SAS35x48 expanders
Bandwidth: SATAIII 6Gb/s or SAS 12Gb/s per port
Default configuration supports:
2 x SATA/SAS and 4 x SATA/SAS/NVMe devices available in rear side
SAS card is required to enable the drive bays
Suggested 12Gb/s SAS cards:
CRA4648
CSA4648
2 x M.2 slots:
- M-key
- PCIe Gen3 x4
- Supports NGFF-2242/2260/2280 cards