Forward Vs Reverse Breakout Cable

Now my issue is.

Forward vs reverse breakout cable.

I have no clue what cables i need to get. There is an excellent answer to this question in a post by barrygordon over on the unraid server community. Eur usd and gbp usd are both approaching a key decision zone. Question about sas sata and forward and reverse breakout cables.

If you have a motherboard and want to make use of a hotswap bay much like that in. Those cables sff 8087 sas sata look identical reverse vs forward except small description on the package or on the site. I just need a definite confirmation that forward equals 1 1 or a specific test i could conduct e g. Reverse not forward the cable matters mini sas to 4x sata reverse breakout cable connects 4 discrete sata ports on a raid controller host to a mini sas sff 8087 multi lane port on a backplane.

For future expansion i m thinking of moving to a narco rpc 4224 which has 24 sata drive bays connected to 6 sas backplanes with 4 drives on each. I actually by mistake bought the cable you are looking for the phrase is. I bought my motherboard to use the lsi3008 as a sata hba and then promptly forgot to by breakout cables. It should not to be confused with a forward cable that functions in the opposite direction.

For some reason the need had eluded med. Also 8087 4x 7pin sata cables come in two variants forward and reverse breakout. A bearish reverse or a bullish break. To make it simple if the host controller side is a sas connector sff 8470 and the target side is sata drives then you must always use a sas to sata forward breakout cable.

Live and learn i guess. On forward cables pin x on minisas connects to pin y on the first sata. Reverse fanout in contrary to forward fanout or forward reverse breakout. The cable is showing a potential head and shoulders chart pattern for instance whereas the eur.

So if you have a lsi 9211 8i hba 2x sff8087 and want to connect to 4 sata drives you just bought then you need a sff 8087 forward breakout crossover cable. One fans out from an sff 8087 connector say an hba a forward breakout cable and the other concentrates say from a motherboard to an sff 8087 passive backplane reverse breakout kangmin cao april 3. Somehow forward and reverse are not common specifications here. But they are not exchangeable.

Reverse breakout 1 1 sata sas ports on motherboard or controller to sff 8087 backplane.