- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Dell EMC PowerEdge T640 overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Optional front bezel
- System feet
- Caster wheels – optional
- Drives
- Removing a drive blank
- Installing a drive blank
- Removing a drive carrier
- Installing a drive carrier
- Removing the drive from the drive carrier
- Installing a drive into the drive carrier
- 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 2.5 inch drive from a 3.5 inch drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5 inch drive into a 3.5 inch drive adapter
- Power supply units
- System cover
- Inside the system
- Air shroud
- Cooling fans
- Cooling fan (middle fan) assembly
- Flex bays
- Optical drives and tape drives
- NVDIMM-N battery
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- Expansion card holder
- GPU card holder (optional)
- Expansion cards
- Optional GPU card
- NVLink bridge
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional MicroSD or vFlash card
- Optional IDSDM or vFlash module
- Backplane
- Backplane cabling
- Integrated storage controller card
- System battery
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Control panel assembly
- Trusted Platform Module
- System board
- Power interposer boards
- Converting the system from tower mode to rack mode
- System diagnostics
- Getting help
Dell Technologies PowerEdge T640 Installation and Service Manual
Backplane connectors
Depending on the configuration, your system supports one of the following:
Figure 1. 16 x 2.5 inch SAS/SATA backplane for FlexBay (upper) 
Figure 2. 16 x 2.5 inch SAS/SATA backplane (lower) 
Figure 3. 8 x 2.5 inch NVMe backplane 
Figure 4. 18 x 3.5 inch SAS/SATA backplane 
Figure 5. 8 x 3.5 inch SAS/SATA backplane 
- 8 x 3.5 inch SAS/SATA backplane
- 18 x 3.5 inch SAS/SATA backplane
- 8 x 2.5 inch Dell PowerEdge Express Flash (NVMe) backplane
- 16 x 2.5 inch SAS/SATA backplane with the optional additional backplanes below:
- 8 x 2.5 inch NVMe backplane
- 16 x 2.5 inch SAS/SATA backplane (FlexBay)
- 32 x 2.5 inch SAS/SATA backplane
- backplane power connector A [J_BP_PWR_A]
- backplane power connector B [J_BP_PWR_B]
- optical drive power connector [J_ODD_PWR]
- backplane signal connector [J_BP_SIG]
- SAS A0 connector [J_SAS_A0]
- SAS B0 connector [J_SAS_B0]
- I2C connector
- SAS A1 connector [J_EXP_A1]
- SAS B1 connector [J_EXP_B1]
- backplane power connector A [J_BP_PWR_A]
- backplane power connector B [J_BP_PWR_B]
- optical drive power connector [J_ODD_PWR]
- backplane signal connector [J_BP_SIG]
- SAS A0 connector [J_SAS_A0]
- SAS B0 connector [J_SAS_B0]
- I2C connector
- backplane power connector [J_BP_PWR1]
- PCIe B0 connector [J_PCIE_B0]
- PCIe A0 connector [J_PCIE_A0]
- backplane signal connector [J_BP_SIG1]
- PCIe A1 connector [J_PCIE_A1]
- PCIe B1 connector [J_PCIE_B1]
- backplane power connector A [J_BP_PWR_A1]
- controller
- backplane power connector B [J_BP_PWR_B1]
- optical drive power connector [J_ODD1]
- I2C connector
- backplane signal connector [J_BP_SIG1]
- SAS A0_B0 connector [J_SAS_A0_B0]
- optical drive power connector [J_ODD1]
- backplane power connector [J_BP_PWR_A]
- SAS A0 connector [J_BP_SIG]
- backplane signal connector [J_SAS_A0]
- SAS B0 connector [J_SAS_B0]
Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
Please select whether the article was helpful or not.
Comments cannot contain these special characters: <>()\