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 booting device bay: 2 x 2.5" hot-swappable SSD bays*
NOTE:
* For rear side 2.5" bays support Solid State Drives only due to thermal consideration
2 x Broadcom SAS3x36R expanders
Bandwidth: SATAIII 6Gb/s or SAS 12Gb/s per port
Default configuration supports:
2 x SAS/SATA drives in rear side
SAS card is required to enable the drive bays
Suggested 12Gb/s SAS cards:
CRA4648
CSA4648