Lenovo RD540 Backplane for 3.5-inch hard disk drives, Hot-swap hard-disk-drive backplane location

The following illustration shows the location of the hot-swap hard-disk-drive backplane. You need to remove the server cover to access the backplane. See “Removing the server cover” on page 69.

Notes:

• Depending on the model, your server might look slightly different from the illustrations in this topic.

• The following illustration is based on 3.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drives with one backplane

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Figure 21. Hot-swap hard-disk-drive backplane location

Backplane for 3.5-inch hard disk drives

This topic provides information to help you locate the connectors on the backplane for 3.5-inch hard disk drives.

The following illustrations show the connectors on the backplane for 3.5-inch hard disk drives.

Figure 22. Front view of the backplane for 3.5-inch hard disk drives

	Slot 0 for a 3.5-inch hard disk drive		Slot 2 for a 3.5-inch hard disk drive
1		3
	Slot 1 for a 3.5-inch hard disk drive		Slot 3 for a 3.5-inch hard disk drive
2		4

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