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This R860 configuration supports 16 SAS/SATA drives that span across backplane 1 and 2 and eight NVMe drives in backplane 3. The 16 SAS/SATA drives are connected to CPU1 through PERC11 or PERC12, and the eight NVMe drives are connected directly to CPU1/CPU2/CPU3/CPU4 with equal PCIe resources to each processor.