slimsas

So my understanding is MCIO is a replacement for MiniSAS HD/SlimSAS (and possibly OcuLINK?) as it can support much faster transfer rates for future PCIe standards? But like, I noticed that some motherboards suggest an MCIO port supporting PCIe Gen3 x8 OR SATA (8x I guess) via the PCH bus, but...

Hi, Does anyone have the block diagram of the Asus W680 ACE? I wonder how the PCI lanes are used and what implications I have if I populate all m2 slots. Further, can the SlimSAS 4i port be used for 2 U.2 drives? The mainboard should support bifurcation, as far as I have seen. I am...

Where/how/who is a great source for all the various "SFF-xxxx" storage cables? Not interested in cheap shiny fakes!

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 /...

I've recently purchased a Gigabyte MZ72-HBO mobo and there are two U.2 NVMe (#38 & #39 on the board diagram in the user manual) ports attached to the CPU0. Rather naively, I assumed this meant that I could connect a SlimSAS to MiniSAS cable and run the Icy Dock MB720M2K-B 4x M.2 NVMe cage out...

Hi! My workplace bought a Supermicro server with a H11SSW-NT (EPYC) motherboard a year ago, and there's a small annoyance that I've been trying to find the cause for ever since: When Linux boots up and initializes the AMD FCH SATA controller, any empty drive bay results in a DUMMY ata port...