Graham Sutherland -> EMF đ8087 on Nostr: you know the SFF connector naming schemes are a nightmare when it's an order of ...
you know the SFF connector naming schemes are a nightmare when it's an order of magnitude easier for me to download several gigabytes of project collateral for an Open Compute Project server chassis, unpack it, load the mainboard's board file in Allegro Board Viewer, and go find the connector part number they're using there, than it is to find reliable online documentation that tells me which of the thousand different SFF-xxxx numbers is the correct one and then find a connector part for it.
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