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