Question about sas sata and forward and reverse breakout cables.
Forward vs reverse breakout cable.
There is an excellent answer to this question in a post by barrygordon over on the unraid server community.
The cable is showing a potential head and shoulders chart pattern for instance whereas the eur.
It should not to be confused with a forward cable that functions in the opposite direction.
Now my issue is.
Somehow forward and reverse are not common specifications here.
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 currently have 8x sata drives which are connected to 8 out of 10 sata connectors on my motherboard and on a raid card.
But they are not exchangeable.
Those cables sff 8087 sas sata look identical reverse vs forward except small description on the package or on the site.
I have no clue what cables i need to get.
I can only find 1 1 aka straight through or crossover.
Reverse breakout 1 1 sata sas ports on motherboard or controller to sff 8087 backplane.
Live and learn i guess.
Eur usd and gbp usd are both approaching a key decision zone.
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.
I bought my motherboard to use the lsi3008 as a sata hba and then promptly forgot to by breakout cables.
I actually by mistake bought the cable you are looking for the phrase is.
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.
A bearish reverse or a bullish break.
Also 8087 4x 7pin sata cables come in two variants forward and reverse breakout.
For some reason the need had eluded med.
If you have a motherboard and want to make use of a hotswap bay much like that in.
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.
I just need a definite confirmation that forward equals 1 1 or a specific test i could conduct e g.