ASUS WRX90 - SlimSAS to U.2

Hardware Motherboards
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Morning,

Looking to go from the onboard SlimSAS to U.2 (Optane) - does anyone know the cable required?

I’m aware of the AIC option.

TIA

Derek

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Diliving SFF-8654 auf SFF-8639 Kabel, SlimSAS 8i (SFF-8654 74P) auf 2 Port U.2 NVMe Adapter (SFF-8639 68P) Kabel mit Strom, 75 cm

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B098JBS7QD?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

i use those with my CD6 Kioxia and have Zero Problems

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Nice… looks like this at Amazon in Canada?

https://a.co/d/eprrzks

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Yes those are correct, buy them be happy.

  • Upstream: SlimSAS 8i (SFF-8654 x8) Plug
  • Downstream: U.2 Plug (SFF-8639 68P) Receptacle Port
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Generally a good store from what I have seen on here

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Note you need two 4i cables not one 8i cable fwiw

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Do you have a SKU / URL @wendell? Sounds like the above cables are incorrect.

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that looks correct, you may still need to configurre drive strength. if 0.5m is an option for you, do that instead of 1m. shorter the cable the more you are tipping the scales in your favor of no issues

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1M is overkill - just MOBO to the Optane in the case.

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Looks good

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Does this cable require a redriver to not lose signal for full gen4 speed?

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You, who are so wise in the ways of science, When you say “ may have to configure drive strength “ does that mean buy a pcie redriver , or is there a built in redriver in the motherboard ( thinking wrx90) that you can fiddle with…

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I believe there is a built in redriver here but I don’t have a lot of mileage testing this part of it yet.