Amphenol FCI Serial-Attached SCSI Peripheral Component Interconnect Express

Amphenol FCI SAS/PCIe 5.0 (U.2 and U.3) Connectors are available in speeds of 32GT/s (PCIe lanes) and 24Gb/s (SAS lanes). The connectors feature 68 positions and allow implementation of high-speed serial attached SCSI (SAS) interfaces for Hard Disk Drive (HDD). These connectors support up to 4 parts PCIe-based devices to improve performance and faster file transfers. The connectors are durable for up to 500 mating cycles and have a maximum mating force and minimum unmating force of 59N and 12N.

Features

• Additional mechanical strength after soldering with stamped clips
• Backwards compatible with 6Gb/s SAS, SATA and 3Gb/s SFF8482 connectors
• Connector mismatch reduced with guideposts
• Flexible in component selection as the receptacles are intermateable with unshielded dual port SFF8680 (SAS 3.0) connectors
• Improved performance and faster file transfer with up to 4 ports PCI-based devices
• Staggered contact lengths for sequential contact mating for hot plugging
• Supports both SATA and SAS drivers

Applications

• External storage system
• HDD
• HDD carrier
• Interposer card
• Processor and storage blade
• Server
• Storage server

Technical Specifications