Raid cards / Minisas cables

[celliott]

Might be asking a silly question here, but if I have a raid controller which uses Minisas connectors (SFF-8087), can I get a breakout cable to connect directly to SATA drives or do I need to have some kind of backplane between the cable and the drive?

Every cable I look at says "For connecting raid controller to backplane", nothing about connecting directly to drives

Thanks

 

[[Darkend]Viper]

Well i've got a megaraid 8308elp and have 2 breakout cables to 4 sata connectors on each, and it works.

Think the bit about backplane is so you can use SAS drives on it as the connector for sas and sata is different.

 

[RimBlock]

Might be asking a silly question here, but if I have a raid controller which uses Minisas connectors (SFF-8087), can I get a breakout cable to connect directly to SATA drives or do I need to have some kind of backplane between the cable and the drive?

Every cable I look at says "For connecting raid controller to backplane", nothing about connecting directly to drives

Thanks

Yes you can.

You need a set of SFF-8087 -> 4x 7 pin SATA cables. They need to be forward breakout cables as reverse breakout go from a SFF-8087 backplane connector to motherboard 7 pin SATA connectors.

An example would be the LSI CBL-SFF8087OCF-10M (1 meter foward breakout cable). Check the LSI site as they have descriptions of what is needed to connect what to what .

RB