@ISRV actually, I have a 4x NVMe backplane in one of the datacenter servers so I can use the 750's without the cable. We are going to see that more soon.
One of the members on here got custom cables made so I have something like 6 incoming but we had to do a group order.
I think the majority of sales for these are going to be in servers with backplanes. In low end desktops (Haswell/ Broadwell) the market is not there yet. Low end configs will use integrated graphics and SATA SSDs. Higher end configs with PCIe graphics do not really have many lanes available for PCIe SSDs. With the Xeon E5 family, you have plenty of PCIe 3.0 lanes (80 in a 2P configuration) so you can do meaningful storage there.
Then again... I would bet 99.99% of desktop users cannot tell the difference between a NVMe SSD and a SATA SSD in terms of real world speed so I think the push for cables just is not there right now.
One of the members on here got custom cables made so I have something like 6 incoming but we had to do a group order.
I think the majority of sales for these are going to be in servers with backplanes. In low end desktops (Haswell/ Broadwell) the market is not there yet. Low end configs will use integrated graphics and SATA SSDs. Higher end configs with PCIe graphics do not really have many lanes available for PCIe SSDs. With the Xeon E5 family, you have plenty of PCIe 3.0 lanes (80 in a 2P configuration) so you can do meaningful storage there.
Then again... I would bet 99.99% of desktop users cannot tell the difference between a NVMe SSD and a SATA SSD in terms of real world speed so I think the push for cables just is not there right now.