2011年1月31日 · These days, seven pin connectors, SFF-8087 and SFF-8088 connectors are the major players for SAS/SATA RAID controllers, host bus adapters, and related accessories, but it is good to know that other cable types exist.

2021年2月14日 · There are two types of SAS break out cables - Forward & Reverse. You need reverse break out cable as you are going from 4 SATA ports on the Mobo to one SAS connector on the back plane.

2022年8月17日 · Internal SAS HBAs for FreeNAS generally fall into two categories based on their connector types. SFF-8643 is the newer SAS3 connector on LSI’s 12.0gbps controller cards. (SAS 3008 and newer).

2012年12月12日 · We outline your options for wiring an external SAS/ SATA disk chassis. This includes all of the components you need for a JBOD DAS or SAS Expander chassis

2016年3月18日 · I've been able to carefully cut the edge off a sata power and data connector and connect to a SAS drive. Been running without issues for the past 4 months. But I am connecting the drive to a sas hba and not a sata port on the other end.

2024年1月22日 · SATA and SAS use the "bottom" side of the connector for electrical contacts (drive perspective). The void in SATA between power and signal is the 2nd channel for SAS. U2 uses the top side of the same physical connector which allows for a disk to have SAS and U2 the hard part being how to handle being plugged into a back plane capable of both.

2012年12月10日 · You may soon start seeing cards and cables that support a new set of SAS connector standards, SFF-8644 and SFF-8643. The new connectors function the same as the old but are physically smaller, which is good news for high density servers.

2020年12月3日 · At the moment, I have two cables from the HBA to the backplane with SFF-8643 connectors on each side and there are eight hot-swapable drive bays with eight trays which are compatible to 2,5" and 3,5" SATA or SAS drives.

2023年5月7日 · Slimeline SAS is just "yet another SAS/SATA/PCIe physical connector". It's a little inaccurate for them to call it a "U.2" port since you don't have to use it with U.2 drives (which are NVMe/PCIe, not SAS/SATA, but use the same connector shape as SAS).

2022年3月17日 · If the SAS drives will be ok on the same backplane I have noticed two different types of breakout cables, one has something called a "sideband" connector, do I need that type of cable or is it optional?