How to use the Oculink on Supermicro Motherboards

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I see some of the single 3647 and Xeon D boards have "oculink" according to STH. I was even lookin at this board that has 4 of them *NEW* SuperMicro X11SRM-VF Motherboard 672042274826 | eBay

How are people connecting devices to these?

Do I just need a cable like this? https://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-Cable-CBL-SAST-0956-OCuLink-SFF-8639/dp/B07649S6L9/

What about for the boards like this https://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-x11sdv-4c-tln2f-review-with-intel-xeon-d-2123it/

Are there Oculink to 4 SATA available? Do they work in all ports like that X11SRM?
 
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That looks like the correct cable. The breakout I do not know the part number for yet.
 
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Ah, news to me. I knew that such a thing was in place on the new Atom C3000 series, but hadn't seen any motherboard that used Oculink for it.
 
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the thing is, since NVME, the SATA and SAS connectors no longer "only" speak SATA or SAS.
They got demoted to just the Physical connection. The Electrical / Protocol - Link could now be SATA / SAS / NVME
 
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Hi Guys,

I might be late to the party but, I am having a big headache getting the oculink port to work on the same motherboard ( Supermicro X11SDV)

I have the same cable https://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-C...uLink-SFF-8639/dp/B07649S6L9/?tag=servecom-20 and Also have an adapter to conect my NVMe drive https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com...encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1533942315&sr=1-1-fkmr1

Problem is drive randomly shows on BIOS and sometimes doesnt show, and cannot initialize the drive or write data, im suing samsung 970 evo

tried a second adapter same result, pretty sure is something related with supermciro board or BIOS setting

any ideas?

thanks
 
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Akron

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chilipepperz said:
I see some of the single 3647 and Xeon D boards have "oculink" according to STH. I was even lookin at this board that has 4 of them *NEW* SuperMicro X11SRM-VF Motherboard 672042274826 | eBay

How are people connecting devices to these?

Do I just need a cable like this? https://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-Cable-CBL-SAST-0956-OCuLink-SFF-8639/dp/B07649S6L9/

What about for the boards like this https://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-x11sdv-4c-tln2f-review-with-intel-xeon-d-2123it/

Are there Oculink to 4 SATA available? Do they work in all ports like that X11SRM?
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did you manage to use the oculink successfully port at all?
 
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Akron said:
Hi Guys,

Problem is drive randomly shows on BIOS and sometimes doesnt show, and cannot initialize the drive or write data, im suing samsung 970 evo

tried a second adapter same result, pretty sure is something related with supermciro board or BIOS setting

any ideas?

thanks
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My experience with Samsung 960 Pro 1TB and passive PCIe raisers was pretty bad.
Drive would work for couple of days and then either suddenly disconnect or start dropping reads or writes.

Raiser I was using: PCI-E PCI-Express 16X Riser Card Flex Flexible Ribbon Extender Extension Cable | eBay

Have you tried connecting any other U.2 drive like maybe Intel Optane?
 
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