Cable Matters Internal Mini SAS to SATA Cable, SFF-8087, 3.3ft

Arrived quickly and well packed with no damage. The cables feel solid and connectors fit snug without any looseness. Worked perfectly with my setup, all drives were detected right away. Good build quality and clean signal, no issues during use. Length is just right for a neat internal layout.

I needed this SFF 8087 to SATA Forward Breakout Cable, 3.3 feet, which connects the one SFF 8087 Connector on my LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i RAID SBA Card to 4 SATA HDD's. Cables of this type, where you have the one SFF 8087 connector to 4 SATA or SAS HDD's are delicate cables to begin with due to the wire connections, this cable appears well made. The Connectors seem to be of good quality and fit snugly into their receptors, the main leads from the SFF connector are wrapped in a heavy insulator to protect the cables and while I didn't measure the length of this heavy insulator was about halfway on the total cable. The 4 separate leads were smaller wire gauge with a light blue plastic insulator and SATA standard connectors. Each of the 4 connectors were labeled with a simple plastic tag numbered from 1 thru 4 so you can identify each drive connected. I had no problems with communication between the Card and the HDD's, worked perfectly upon installation. The SATA connectors are typical ones that you find on many cables, nothing special, not too hard to install or remove, just press the small spring metal tab and the cable can be removed. They click into place with little effort. In hindsight, I may have tried to find cables with right angle SATA connectors as there wasn't much space between the connector and my case, but it worked without having to bend any wires. Its important that the wires are not crimped when installed. The Cable itself was quite long. I have mine in a large Mid Tower PC Case where the stacked and connected HDD's are to the right of the Motherboard so there was plenty of cable to route around the case. This cable would have been adequate for a larger case as well, either a Server Case or larger tower pc case. The 1.6 foot cable may have also worked but when I ordered it, I didn't want to take any chances on it being too short. Better to run the cable around the perimeter of the case than have it be too short or have to run it too close to a heat source of block airflow. I have other Cable Matters cables and they were of similar good quality, I don't think you can go wrong with this cable.

Replaced some cheap cables I had grabbed off eBay with these and my Unraid server went from throwing parity errors constantly to running completely clean on the first rebuild. The connectors feel solid and click in snugly on both the SAS and SATA ends without any looseness. The individual SATA leads being labeled 1 through 4 is a really nice detail when you are keeping track of which drive is which in a big array.

I bought these for a NAS I built out of an old Dell T-7400 workstation. Need this cable to attach to a Perc card, connecting to my 4x WesterDigital RED Plus drives. The cable works pert. All in before adding the actual drives a $120 build vs $500 for a new NAS and it was fun to build.

This product caught my eye quite quickly. It seems to be a to go solution for many people and recommended as such in IT groups, and vouching for that, im quite pleased with the results. To start with, it's one of the few cables like this that goes as long as 1m, as most cables are 50cm, or at most 75cm, which is very important on big cases or when you have to (should!) route cables properly. It does deliver what is promised and works, so far without compatibility issues, as a forward breakout SAS SFF-8087 to SATA-3 cable. The only downside as many people claim, is that the cables should de thicker, more resistant. Its super flexible, but could be maybe double thickness for better sturdiness and RF isolation, without sacrificing much flexibility. Recommend it regardless!

Works as a cable like this should.

I had originally ordered a set of SAS to SATA Forward Breakout cables on ebay along with my order for an LSI SAS 9207 Sata/SAS HBA hard drive controller card. They were definitely cheaper on Ebay, and the ones from Ebay worked perfectly fine for 6 months until I decided to upgrade my Unraid server to an all new Ryzen build. During the the re-build, when disconnecting the LSI HBA card, I accidentally pulled part of the black sleeve covering the SAS connector stem area. It appeared to be cosmetic only. After firing up the new build everything booted fine and seemed stable. Data copied well and it all appeared to be great.... until I tried to validate partiy. I quickly started to experience consistent parity errors with different error counts every time I validated. It was random, though SMART drive tests all passed fine. After many hours of investigation and troubleshooting, isolating drives, etc....I finally decided to just try replacing cables with these ordered from Amazon (for fast Prime delivery). To my amazement parity validated perfectly! These immediately resolved all of my stability issues, and parity was able to be rebuilt and validated numerous times (to confirm). I had heard that the Unraid parity process could be sensitive to cable issues, but wow after 30+ years of building PC's I was quite suprised but am happy to have gotten a quality cable, delivered quickly!

I'm using a pair of these on an 8-port RAID card. The cables are well-made and easy to route. They won't hold up to a cat chewing on 'em, but that's certainly not in the specs. (Don't ask me how I know.) The length is good, the locking clips are solid. Each cable is labeled for drive jack number. If using multiple cables it's easy to add additional labeling for adapter name or port. Just, y'know, keep a spare or two on hand if you have cats and step away from the workspace for a moment.

Calidad Excelente

SilverStone の PCケース、SST-CS01-HS のバックプレーンにPCI-SASカードから本ケーブルで接続。 OSから確認してもSATAの6Gbpsでは無くSASの12Gbpsで認識してRAID使用が出来ました。 良い感じです。

Funziona bene ma i cavetti sono veramente molto sottili e non restituiscono un gran senso di solidità.

Just what I was looking for to hook up the internal SATA buses in my home server.

Board: asus tuf gaming x670e-plus wifi Cpu: ryzen 9 7900x