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This R860 configuration hosts two rear NVMe drives and 24 SAS/SATA drives. The two rear NVMe drives are directly connected from CPU2, while the remaining 24 SAS/SATA drives are connected to CPU1 through the front PERC11/PERC12 plus SAS/SATA Expander.