Guides

SFF Interface Quick Reference Guide

SFF numbers are confusing even for experienced system builders: SFF-8643, SFF-8654, SFF-8639, SFF-8611, SFF-TA-1016 — five connectors, all carrying PCIe or SAS, all physically similar. This cheat sheet puts them...

SFF Interface Quick Reference Guide

SFF numbers are confusing even for experienced system builders: SFF-8643, SFF-8654, SFF-8639, SFF-8611, SFF-TA-1016 — five connectors, all carrying PCIe or SAS, all physically similar. This cheat sheet puts them...

U.2 NVMe Cable Guide

U.2 — formally SFF-8639 — is the connector that brought enterprise NVMe SSDs into mainstream servers. But buying the drive is the easy part; choosing the right U.2 cable is...

U.2 NVMe Cable Guide

U.2 — formally SFF-8639 — is the connector that brought enterprise NVMe SSDs into mainstream servers. But buying the drive is the easy part; choosing the right U.2 cable is...

MCIO vs SlimSAS

Internal server cabling has changed fast over the last three generations. If you are building or upgrading a PCIe Gen5 server, workstation, or JBOD, you have almost certainly run into...

MCIO vs SlimSAS

Internal server cabling has changed fast over the last three generations. If you are building or upgrading a PCIe Gen5 server, workstation, or JBOD, you have almost certainly run into...