No. If SAS A & B is connected as per below picture, then you need to have a integrated storage controller on slot 3 of below picture. Can you check that. Below are list if integrated storage controller which is supported in R720   [IMAGE] If you want to use embedded S110, you can try connecting as per figure 3 of the link. As this is not a supported configuration for 8 X 3.5 backplane it is not validated and I can not guarantee that it will work. For this you need to use cable with part# MPXC8
Hi All, I want to reuse one of our DELL R720 (previously used as ESX hypervisor, running on SD cards) as a physical Linux Server. There where no hard drives provided, so I put a Samsung SSD EVO 860 500Go in slot 0 and a Samsung SSD EVO 870 2 To in slot 1 (no mirroring need). R720 has 8 slots in front, 3.5 size. Disk tray removing are detected and appear on the front screen, nut none of the disk tray leds are lightning. Initial BIOS configuration for SATA settings indicates "AHCI Mode" for Embedded SATA. I've tried to activate the S110 Controller by switching to "RAID Mode", but S110 configuration displays none of the SSD drives. Is there something else to configure? llinked to BIOS version? S110 should be SSD compliant according the S110 specifications. Any help would be appreciate!  Thanks, Thomas
R720 SSD compatibility