The Cluster Box has two SFF-8643 ports on the back, can these be used to daisy-chain multiple boxes? If yes, would that provide any benefit over traditional networking?
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Hello Winden,
Apologies for the delay in responding.
Currently, the SFF-8643 ports of the Cluster Box are reserved for internal debugging and inaccessible to users. Daisy-chaining for clustering multiple Cluster Boxes is not supported at the moment. However, the Cluster Box is undergoing hardware revision, including port optimization. Further details will be announced in the future.
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How long until the new version of the Cluster Box is expected to be available?
The new version of the Control Board is already available at Mixtile. Instead of the MiniSAS sockets, it is now equipped with a USB-C jack and an OCuLink connector. So I don’t know whether this arrangement allows for coupling more than two cluster boxes.