Why would SuperMicro put the OCUlink port in such a place, when they know a PCIe card might be going there :/. So now I cant fit the system with an NVME drive. Any workarounds… Maybe a right angle adapter?
SuperMicro X11SDV-12C-TLN2F
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Whats the point, may aswell just buy the rip off right angle adapter cable from SuperMicro, i allready have a HBA. I wonder if any females had an input in the design of the board, i doubt it haha. I'm sure they would have put a right angle connector on the mobo.
I'm sure you're going to receive a plethora of assistance on this forum by quickly going down the path of sexism. 
FYI, I am male, and was complimenting the female brain. With that said, I know everyone's very easily offended nowadays, even to compliments :/.I'm sure you're going to receive a plethora of assistance on this forum by quickly going down the path of sexism.
That's why I talk more to my horse more than people these days, however this is a public forum which is indexed by search engines etc so it is usually wise to avoid breathing outside of the topic on hand, sometimes a compliment is misinterpreted quite easily LOL
Regarding a right angle occulink cable or even adapter, not seen one myself. Maybe you can do a heatgun job and slightly bend the hba at the end? if you're careful it can be done though it is a serious hack that could result in a damaged hba, I'd do it personally just out of boredom, if it don't work then you have an excuse to get a more suitable hba for the required clearance.
Regarding a right angle occulink cable or even adapter, not seen one myself. Maybe you can do a heatgun job and slightly bend the hba at the end? if you're careful it can be done though it is a serious hack that could result in a damaged hba, I'd do it personally just out of boredom, if it don't work then you have an excuse to get a more suitable hba for the required clearance.
I don't think I'd get on too well with a heat gun haha. I found a few options anyhow, just contacted an EU 'Authorized Partner' to see if they can grab me one for cheaper than the below link. Thanks for the suggestion though.That's why I talk more to my horse more than people these days, however this is a public forum which is indexed by search engines etc so it is usually wise to avoid breathing outside of the topic on hand, sometimes a compliment is misinterpreted quite easily LOL
Regarding a right angle occulink cable or even adapter, not seen one myself. Maybe you can do a heatgun job and slightly bend the hba at the end? if you're careful it can be done though it is a serious hack that could result in a damaged hba, I'd do it personally just out of boredom, if it don't work then you have an excuse to get a more suitable hba for the required clearance.
Options:
1. OCuLink SFF-8611 Right Angle Male to OCuLink SFF-8611 Female Straight
2. CBL-SAST-0955 OCuLink to U.2 cable
I think SM's design assumes that this board would be installed in a 1U chassis and the PCIe card would be on a 90 degree riser, which would offset the card just enough for the oculink cable to fit. That doesn't solve your problem, of course, just noting that their design isn't actually wrong for the use case they had in mind.
The clash of use-cases, the trials and tribulations of the humble homelab.
Yes that's correct, i have 8 drives unfortunately.Hello @n00bftw o/
Which LSI raid card is that? It looks like the 8217-8i
You could always rip the bottom connector off
How many drives do you need?
It's a nice card so it would be a shame to do it harm anyway.
I have seen some slightly shorter cards from LSI and some with the connectors on the top.
I think they are slightly older cards. Still 6Gb but Pcie 2.0
You might have to get that expensive cable
What is this system? File server or storage?
it would be nice to see it. Maybe send some beauty shots to the DIY server pages
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I have seen some slightly shorter cards from LSI and some with the connectors on the top.
I think they are slightly older cards. Still 6Gb but Pcie 2.0
You might have to get that expensive cable
What is this system? File server or storage?
it would be nice to see it. Maybe send some beauty shots to the DIY server pages
- 68k
Completely off/topic, kind of may even appear troll-like behaviour, but genuinely I been saying it for years, we need to just get shot of slots altogether, we need nice little optical sockets and then we can mount cards anywhere we desire, can you imagine a world where we finally let go of electrical data connects. We've gotten down from a gazillion IDE pins to a handful of serial pins, even PCI-E lanes are serial in nature! - mankind is finally ready to make the next real leap in computer architecture. If DFI was still around I bet they would listen to my ramblings.
DFI I've not heard that name in years.
The Lanparty boards looked shocking but they were pretty good
The Lanparty boards looked shocking but they were pretty good
@n00bftw, what did you do here in the end? I've just hit exactly the same issue after waiting 2 months to get the CBL-SAST-956. The 955 variant seems to have a very short data cable with a long power cable which is strange. And I can't find any local retailers with it in stock anyway.
Edit: just found an NEC 2308 card that looks a lot shorter than the HP H220 so have ordered that to try: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133882311098?hash=item1f2c01f1ba:g:OjsAAOSwuHthSJ8p
Edit: just found an NEC 2308 card that looks a lot shorter than the HP H220 so have ordered that to try: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133882311098?hash=item1f2c01f1ba:g:OjsAAOSwuHthSJ8p
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