[PLUG] PCI cards and connectors

[John Jason Jordan]

My two PCIe 3 cards got here a week ago and I mounted the four U.2
drives on them while waiting for the case to show up. It finally made
it today. (Fedex has put it on a truck for delivery every day since last
Wednesday, and the driver finally decided to deliver it today.)

The case is a Magma EB3T-V3 which the vendor assured me could take the
two Sonnet Dual Fusion PCI cards. Well, I can push them down into the
connectors, but some of the connectors on the cards do not make
contact. That is because the connectors in the case are about 2.25"
long and the connectors on the cards are about 3.25" long.

I think I've been had, but I'd like some education about what kinds of
connectors PCI cards are supposed to use. And what are the different
connectors called? So far Duckduckgo hasn't come up with anything.