Mini Serial Attached SCSI (Mini-SAS)

Connectors & Cable Assemblies

LOROM’s unique product offering of precision external Mini-SAS and Mini-SATA cable assembly solutions, provide a complete product platform addressing the ever increasing demand for higher channel density with a high level of signal integrity performance in serial I/O interfaces.

The Mini-SAS and Mini-SATA I/O system provides a cost-effective, high speed solution that meets the bandwidth requirements of current and future applications in servers and external storage systems.

Cable assemblies offered by LOROM exceed the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) requirements for mini-multilane external systems standardized port interfaces.

Specifically, our Mini-SAS and Mini-SATA products exceed the applicable requirements of the INCITS T10 SAS 2.0 & SAS 2.1 specification, the SATA I/O Serial ATA specification and conform to the mechanical requirements described in the SFF-8086 and SFF-8088 Standards.

LOROM’s Mini-SAS and Mini-SATA Cable Assemblies are “Future Proof by Design”

LOROM’s Mini-SAS and Mini-SATA cable assemblies address the industry’s current need for high-speed interfaces (up to 3.0 Gb/s), but more importantly, support the concept of a need for greater channel capacity and higher signal speeds to support 6.0 Gb/s per channel and beyond.

Our Mini-SAS and Mini-SATA cable assemblies employ our unique, world-class, state-of-the-art house to provide the highest level of signal integrity performance. In particular, extremely low-insertion loss due to our unique skin-foam-skin, gas-injected dielectric technology as well as extreme control of balanced/unbalanced (Mode conversion), providing significant performance advantages in increased system head-room/budget, as well as ease of cable management and smaller packaging densities.

The cable assemblies employ new innovative PCB technology designed specifically to address the complex issues of optimising signal integrity performance. In particular, cross talk as well as launch condition between wire and PCB termination to optimise return loss and prevent/minimise effects. Our highly automated, controlled cable assembly manufacturing processes s first automatic soldering process, optimises the critical termination between wire and PCB, improving overall performance and removing the human element.

Automated final-test and quality systems assure high-quality cable assemblies, conforming to the high-speed electrical performance requirements in industry specifications. Excellence of mechanical design exceeds the stringent mechanical interface requirements as defined by applicable industry standards.

LOROM’s cable assemblies surpass the requirements as defined by the applicable industry standards, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) applicable requirements of the INCITS T10 SAS 2.0 and 2.1 specification or the SATA-IO Serial ATA specification and conform to the mechanical requirements described in the associated SFF-8086 and SFF-8088 documents.

Features & Benefits

Cable Assemblies

• LOROM paddle-card design is optimised for signal integrity and the design of the cable assembly is perfect in mechanical performance.
• Other available solutions support Mini-SAS (SAS 2.0 & 2.1) und Mini-SATA 4x external I/O requirements.
• Strong 26-position cabling interconnect system that meet the SFF-8088 and SFF-8086 Standard.
• LOROM smart Latch Mechanism provides secure connection and optimize stacking.
• Adaptive, strong EMI Gasket and die-cast backshell assure proper EMI shielding.
• Robust cable-strainelief system isolates cable termination from mechanical stress.
• Controlled wire management and termination process assures consistent high-speed electrical performance.
• Fully compatible with all defined SAS and SATA encoding options
• RoHS Compliant

Applications

• Data Servers
• RAID Syatems
• Storage Racks
• External Storage Systems
• SAS/SATA HBA interfaces direct-attached Storage
• (DAS) Communication Switches
• Industry Standards
• SATA-IO Serial ATA (SATA) Specification
• INCITS/ANSI
• Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) Specification SFF-8088 and SFF-8086

Technical Data

Physical

• Shells: die-cast zinc
• PCB: proprietary material laminate with gold-plated contact pads
• Raw cable: 8 individually shielded differential pair cables
• 3 GHz
• 360° fully shielded EMI shield
• Jacket: PVC & LSZH [low smoke Zero halogen] CL2 or AWM style
• Pull tab: nylon resin
• Latch mechanism: stainless steel

Electrical Performance

• Differential Impedance: 100 Ω +/- 10 Ω @ 70 ps rise time (20-80%)
• Insertion Loss: 24 AWG, 6 m
  • < 8 dB @ 12.5 GHz (2.5 Gb/s per channel)
  • < 10 dB @ 2.50 GHz (5.0 Gb/s per channel)
  • < 16 dB @ 5.00 GHz (10.0 Gb/s per channel)
• Near end multi-line crosstalk: < 30
  dB from 10 MHz to 4.5 GHz
• Within Pair skew: < 10 ps/meter
• Pair-to-pair skew: < 50 ps/meter
• Withstanding voltage: 300 V DC
• Current rating: 0.5 amps maximum per
  contact

Mechanical Performance

• Durability: 250 cycles
• Mating force: 65 N maximum
• Cable axial pull force: 88 N minimum
• Latch pull (axial load): 25 N minimum

Environmental

• Operating temperature: -20°C to 85°C 32, condition 55°C to +85°C
• Temperature life: EIA 364-17, Method A
  456 hours +90°C
• Mixed Flowing gas: EIA 364-65, class
  IIA 7 days unmated and 7 days mated

Advantages

• LOROM Mini-SAS Break-Out Cables addresses the data center marketwith an unique high performance cable and a compact design.
• Customised Design
• Excellence EMI gasket to assure cage shielding to chassis
• RoHS Compliant
• Supports Mini-SAS (SAS 2.0 and 2.1)

Performance Level

Further Applications

Mini-SAS Break-Out Cable

Advantages

LOROM Mini-SAS Break-Out Cables addresses the data center market with an unique high performance cable and a compact design

• Customised Design
• Excellence EMI gasket to assure cage shielding to chassis
• RoHS Compliant
• Supports Mini-SAS (SAS 2.0 and 2.1)