Supermicro backplane BPN-SAS3-116A-N10 power connectors

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wdk1190

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Ive been looking at the specs of this 10 nvme drive supermicro backplane and I noticed that the power connectors are not standard 4 pin 12V atx connectors, but rather 2 pins are ground, 1 is at 12V and one is at 5V, which is just like a standard 4 pin molex peripheral connector, except in this square 4 pin shape. The manual which shows this is here:


Does anyone know what this connector is called? Is this a special supermicro thing? I can make my own cables to provide the proper voltages but I'd rather not. Every adapter I can find just puts 12V on both non-ground pins which I assume would be bad to plug in to this.
 

BlueFox

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They're also Molex connectors. Mini-Fit line comes in a very large variety. Connectors don't really determine pinouts or voltages as there is no "standard" use.
 
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