Yep, the 4 pin cooling fan header design with PWM control, and the 2PIN as voltage drive for 3004 cooling fan.
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Itās not just POE, that port can also just be used as a second ethernet port for a router setup on your network. in terms of the m.2x expansion adapter most others donāt have the rigid cable they just have a flimsy ribbon cable quite frankly Iād get this for some of my RockPi 4 boards just for the far superior build quality. The speed of the m.2 port isnāt great but itās also just a 1x land so the speeds are what they are, again youāll need the RK3399 chip for the faster gex3x speeds. Hopefully the board will just support m.2 non NVME drives as well, but as I donāt have one canāt test that yet. may some that does will chime in. I do agree that the mobile card slot could be gotten rid of or have two different versions
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Impossible. This would require an additional PCIe SATA controller and there is none. Anyway, the fact that the VIM form factor is too small for a M.2 2280 SSD doesnāt explain Khadasā obsession to create rather expensive add-ons instead of simple and cheap solutions as @chewitt already said.
Well it is a dev board after all so feel free to create your own solution for an m.2 NVME card holder slot. Iām pretty sure you could use the one that Radxa has for the Rock Pi 4. hole might not line up but Iām wiling to bet at least 2 of them do.
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Motivating video for those who have ordered a vim3
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Any shipping uupdates? Kindly share.
Thanks!
We began to arrange shipment from this Monday, and we will complete all the packages(~1K) before 15th August.
You should get the tracking number soon.
Thanks for the order and have fun!
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love the video - the geek in me loves watching these kind of production lines!
Cant wait to get my hands on them - really pleased with the evaluation board i already have!
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Mmm Iāll let @hyphop know that we need to make more geeky videos. And Iāll tone down the marketing spunk. 
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Good Idea more Videos, I can live with Pink outfits 
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yes i have many ideas about geeks video , we will try to do something lil later )
and we wait yours interesting ideas about this )
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And we need more crazy geeks makes up for those serious types 
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Hi,
How to connect sata with m.2 is there any converter availableā¦?
I do not think so. SATA to USB3 adapter might be your best bet.
I have no experience with that type of adapter, being designed for a PC, unsure about that.
It is important to consider that the VIM3 can have USB3 or M.2, not both at the same time(USB3 works in USB2 mode if M.2 is used). Also, the M.2 is one lane. So a drive plugged to a USB3 to SATA adapter might be close speed wise.
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I answered to the question whether the M.2 slot will work only with NVMe SSDs or also with SATA SSDs.
And of course M.2 SATA SSDs wonāt work since thereās a SATA controller missing on the board (be it one without problems ā PCIe based ā or something worse ā USB based). Anyway, using M.2 SATA SSDs requires either a PCIe-to-SATA controller on the PCB or an USB-to-SATA controller there. So no idea what āSATA to USBā should be for.