Intel NVMe/SAS3 2U Disk Enclosure w/ Oculink interface + SuperMicro AOC-SLG3-4E2P

[alaeh]

Has anyone tested if this card will work with the Oculink to 4 x SATA cable (CBL-SAST-0933) from Supermicro? I have the 4 port Oculink variant btw (AXXP3SWX08040)

 

[GoofyHSK]

Anyone using these cages without a fan drawing through?

 

[Ryan Haver]

Here's a picture of the PHS with the brackets I built (including brass hot-set screw threads):
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It'd be pretty easy to remove the plastic block that's there for front-mounting, and then either (a) add holes for ~2mm long screw or (b) add a springy plastic tab that'll poke out into optical drive screw holes.

Do you have the STEP files for your design that you are willing to share? I'd love to remix it for my use case.

 

[tozmo]

Anyone using these cages without a fan drawing through?

I am testing the sas version of this. With 3 2.5 10k drives connected got to 60C really quickly. Now I moved it aside until I can figure out a chassis situation. I'm running badblock tests and have one fan directly in front blowing into the cage and one on the other side blowing away.

 

[Mithril]

I realize this is an old thread. I'm trying to figure out if the AUP8X25S3NVDK or A2U8X25S3PHS (same board just different cages) are "standard" Oculink pinouts? As in, if I connect them to say a bifurcation breakout card or M.2 adaptor with a straight through Oculink to Oculink is the pinout correct? It sounds like they work with straight cables with the mentioned supermicro adaptor but I can't verify the pinout of that so far either.

 

[Legionnaire]

I realize this is an old thread. I'm trying to figure out if the AUP8X25S3NVDK or A2U8X25S3PHS (same board just different cages) are "standard" Oculink pinouts? As in, if I connect them to say a bifurcation breakout card or M.2 adaptor with a straight through Oculink to Oculink is the pinout correct? It sounds like they work with straight cables with the mentioned supermicro adaptor but I can't verify the pinout of that so far either.

Hey, this is a late reply, but if you are still interested, I can share my experience. It appears to be working fine with straight cables.
Not sure what you mean by bifurcation breakout card though. I've tried mine with two different setups:
1) 2x Ceacent CNS42PE16 redriver cards. That is each card plugs into an x16 PCIe slot and outputs 2x 8i SlimSAS connectors, with no PCIe switches anywhere. The overall setup is 2x [x16 slot -> ceacent CNS42PE16 redriver -> 2x 8i SlimSAS -> 2x [ceacent 8i SlimSAS -> 2x OcuLink cable]] -> A2U8X25S3PHS.
This obviously requires enabling x4x4x4x4 bifurcation in BIOS for x16 slots.
This setup recognizes all 8 hard drives and works perfectly fine with PCIe Gen3 SSDs.

2) 1x Ceacent CNS44PE16 card. This card is based on PEX8748 PCIe switch, uses single x16 slot, outputs 4x 8i SlimSAS connectors and requires no bifurcation in BIOS.
In this case the setup is x16 slot -> ceacent CNS44PE16 switching card -> 4x 8i SlimSAS -> 4x [ceacent 8i SlimSAS -> 2x OcuLink cable]] -> A2U8X25S3PHS.
In this case OS sees the switching card and reports 8 PCIe output ports, but does not see SSDs connected to it.
I didn't have time to troubleshoot and just turned back to redriver cards.

I'm not aware of the my cables being crossovers, neither they were advertised as ones, so I'd say straight cables should be fine.

 

[UhClem]

Heads up ... good deal alert:
Intel AXXP3SWX08080 + 8x Oculink Cable Kit for $100 shipped. [Link]

I bought one; excellent condition, checked out A-OK on Intel 8-bay cage w/H88386-25x backplane.