1. Number of Pins: 68 pins, supporting multi-protocol signal transmission

2. Power Supply: Provides 12V and 3.3V power, meeting the power consumption requirements of high-performance SSDs.

3. Signal Transmission: Supports up to 4 PCIe 4.0 lanes, with a transmission rate of 16GT/s per lane. The theoretical maximum bandwidth can reach 64Gbps (unidirectional), and the bidirectional bandwidth is 8GB/s

4. Protocol Support: Compatible with protocols such as NVMe, SAS, and SATA. The NVMe protocol enables high bandwidth and low latency, making it suitable for high-performance enterprise-grade SSDs; the SAS protocol is ideal for enterprise storage that requires high reliability and redundancy; it is backward compatible with SATA 3.0 (6Gbps), applicable to low-cost storage solutions.

5. Hot-Swapping Support: The connector is designed to support hot-swapping, facilitating the replacement or maintenance of devices without shutting down the system, which is suitable for the high availability requirements of enterprise-level environments.

◆◆ Product Advantage

1. The receptacle is intermateable with unshielded two-port SFF8680 (SAS 3.0/4.0) connectors, providing flexible component selection.

2. Simultaneously supports both SAS and U.2 NVMe drives, meeting the demands of mission-critical and mass storage applications.

3. Designed with staggered contact lengths to achieve sequential mating during hot-plugging.

4. Utilizes stamped lances as connector retention features, providing additional mechanical strength after soldering.

5. Guide posts with chamfered lead-ins enable automatic alignment, compensating for connector misalignment.

6. Backward compatible with 12Gb/s and 6Gb/s SAS, as well as U.2 Gen3 connectors, allowing the same interface to be used for both cost-effective HDD storage and high-performance server SSDs.

◆◆ Product Uses

1. Processor and Storage Blade

2. Mezzanine Card

3. HDD

4. HDD Carrier

5. External Storage System

6. Interposer Card

7. Server

8. Storage Server

9. Processor and Storage Blade