slimsas

Hi, I would like to make use of the slimSAS connection on my ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero motherboard. I bought an SFF-8654 4i 38 Pin Host to 4 SATA cable: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B073F67WVN But when I plug my HDDs in they are not recognised. Motherboard setting is set to default 'auto'...

Just purchased an ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero motherboard with a SlimSAS connector supporting PCIe 4.0 x4 mode. Would like to connect a Micron 7500 Pro 7.68TB U.3 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD using this port wondering what cable to look for? Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Hero User’s Manual Micron 7500 NVMe...

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...