Great recommendation, thank you, could you also recommend some MCIO wires 20-30 cm long, please?
Thank you!
It’s really U.3 on a budget if you don’t want to spend 100-200€ per drive in PCIe card + cables + backplane/bay.
Delock also has a x16 card for 4x U.3 with additional SATA power. So no compromises with just 1-2 drives
Better get a board with plenty of MCIO 8i so you just need a cable and are ready to go. All new server boards come with at least some 4i ports, with 8i being more common. Also allows 1xSATA per lane. Kinda wasted, but that’s your on-board SATA today
Cable situation isn’t that great as far as I’ve seen…it’s still a new thing and while SAS cables are more or less ubiquitous, MCIO cable availability isn’t there (yet). But even IcyDock now offers fitting cables to use with their products, so that’s a win and more peace of mind when you want to use IcyDock.
I’m going cheapskate with dumb PCIe carrier cards. Drives themselves are pricey enough and I think the case fans will provide enough airflow across the PCIe cards.
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I recently purchased the Delock 90162, which should arrive in a few weeks. Once it arrives, I’ll test it to check if it works well and will share the results here.
Are there any specific cables or AICs you’d like me to test? If so, just let me know—I’ll be happy to purchase and test them for you.
I’ve benefited greatly from the knowledge and tests shared on this forum, so I’d like to give back by contributing my own test results for this hardware.
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Here are the results for Delock 90162, the log is clean I refreshed it multiple times (Ran multiple tests - 10 TB of data transfers - benchmarks + real data), and the AER is enabled (BIOS). (Kioxia CD8-R - 15.36 TB)
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