oculink

Hello everyone, I know this is a bit out-dated, but I had to do something to give back to the forum, so here it is. I built a "Superworkstation" on the cheap by buying a SuperMicro HS11DSi-NT board and a pair of EPYC 7B12 64-core processors. The ebay purchase also included 256 GB DDR4 ram...

One project, Two questions First question, Buying without research bit me again I bought one of these single oculink port pciexpress cards. https://a.aliexpress.com/_EwSXo2I Because i found this cable: SFF-8611 OCuLink PCIe PCI-Express Oculink 4I STR To SFF-8482 2 in 1 Connector 4X SAS 29Pin...

I got a NAS system built around an EC266D2I-2T/AQC motherboard. I purchased two 8TB NVMe M2 drives, and I have installed them in the Oculink slots (OCU1 and OCU2) using two Oculink to NVMe adapters. So far it looks like the system is not detecting them. What am I doing wrong? My guess is that...

Hello, I have an Asrock Rack W680D4U-2L2TG5 motherboard that has 4 oculink SFF-8611 ports of which three are configured for pci-express gen4 and one is configurable in bios for either 4x sata or pci-express gen4. I bought a pair of oculink cables and a pair of oculink to pcie 4x riser cards in...

Hello, MOBO Manual: https://download.asrock.com/Manual/ROMED8-2T.pdf The TL;DR is I would really love to use 2x NVME M2 drives and both MINI SAS HDD ports (so all 8 SATA ports) with this MOBO. Is this possible? It looked like based on the manual it was not possible, as using one of the M2...

Hello everyone, just registered and this is my first post :) I'm venturing into the beauty of housing my servers. I'm considering this motherboard: Supermicro H12SSL-i (H12SSL-i | Motherboards | Super Micro Computer, Inc.) with this chassis: IW-RS108-07 (1U Rackmount Chassis / InWin /...