fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
im getting my server ready for 6 drives installed and the cable management is HELL
@f0x brb inventing wireless sata extenders
@f0x where tf did they think you’re placing your drives??? On the other side of the room?????
@s0 it's for off-site backups! reaching all the way into another continent
@f0x could you replace them with your own shorter cables?
@s0 not really I think :/ it's a weird (proprietary?) connector on the card end (it has 2 of those ports, each providing 4x sata) and very much designed for server backplanes where you would need the long cables
@f0x ok but like, how much did using that extra connector save them compared to just 4 individual sata connectors
@s0 bit of board space I guess :( I also only need 2 of them to supplement the 4 sata ports on the motherboard lol, but hey, I got the expansion card for free so
4 drives in and cable management is okay-ish but not picture worthy :P (the other 2 drives are still in the current running server, so that's a while away, but everything is ready for the transplant)