- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R440 system overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Optional front bezel
- System cover
- Inside the system
- Backplane cover
- Air shroud
- Cooling fans
- Intrusion switch
- Drives
- Removing a drive blank
- Installing a drive blank
- Removing a 2.5-inch drive from a 3.5-inch drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5-inch drive into a 3.5-inch drive adapter
- Removing a 3.5-inch drive adapter from a 3.5-inch drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5-inch drive adapter into the 3.5-inch drive carrier
- Removing a hard drive
- Installing a hard drive
- Removing the drive from the drive carrier
- Installing a drive into the drive carrier
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- Internal PERC riser
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional MicroSD or vFlash card
- Optional IDSDM or vFlash module
- LOM riser card
- Hard drive backplane
- Cable routing
- System battery
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Optical drive (optional)
- Power supply units
- Power interposer board
- Control panel
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Dell EMC PowerEdge R440 Installation and Service Manual
Hard drive backplane details
Depending on your system configuration,
the hard drive backplanes supported in PowerEdgeR440 are listed
here:
Figure 1. 4 x 3.5 backplane 
Figure 2. 8 x 2.5-inch backplane 
Figure 3. 10 x 2.5 backplane 
Figure 4. 10 x 2.5 backplane
with expander 
| System | Supported hard drives options |
|---|---|
| PowerEdgeR440 | 3.5-inch (x4) SAS, SATA backplane |
| 2.5-inch (x10) SAS, SATA or NVMe
backplane 2.5-inch (x8) SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS drives |
- release tab
- SAS_A connector on the backplane
- backplane power cable connector
- power connector
- release tab
- SATA_A cable connector
- backplane signal cable connector
- backplane
- SATA_B cable connector
- backplane power cable connector
- release tab
- bridge PCIe cable connector
- internal PCIe cable connector
- NVMe cable connector
- NVMe cable connector
- backplane power cable connector
- NVMe cable connector
- SAS_A connector
- backplane signal cable connector
- backplane power cable connector
- SAS_B connector
- SAS_C connector
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