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Reddit mentions of CableCreation Mini SAS 36Pin (SFF-8087) Male to 4 SATA 7Pin female Cable,Mini SAS Host Internal Cable to target HDD Hard Drive Splitter Cable, Red Color 0.5M
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We found 6 Reddit mentions of CableCreation Mini SAS 36Pin (SFF-8087) Male to 4 SATA 7Pin female Cable,Mini SAS Host Internal Cable to target HDD Hard Drive Splitter Cable, Red Color 0.5M. Here are the top ones.
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Mini SAS 36 (SFF-8087) Male Connect to the Controller, 4x SATA Connect to the backplane.Mini SAS 36 (SFF-8087) Male is Host, 4 x SATA female is targetMini SAS 36 (SFF-8087) connect to the Controller, 4 Sata connect to 4 HDD.Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a high-speed data storage interface designed for high-throughput and fast data accessCable Length 0.5M
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Here is my homelab which now has 2 years old and will soon evolve. So postmortem, I share it with you!
Inside 3U rack:
Storage:
Edit: Updated picture
Okay, here's what you're going to want to learn.
Mini-SAS comes in two versions (internal - 8087 or external - 8088).
If you want to connect drives internally, you get an LSI card with internal (8i, 16i)
If you want to connect drives externally, you get an LSI card with external (8e, 16e)
Say you have two boxes, you need one external LSI card with 8088 and one passthrough 8088-8087 card.
You'll need 8087 cables to SATA (an 8i card will have two ports for 2 cables where each support 4 sata cables)
You'll need 8088 cables to connect the external cards together
Figure out how many SATA hard drives you want to support.
8e - 8 SATA drives per external card.
16e - 16 SATA drives per external card.
Shopping List for 16 External Hard Drives from one computer to another:
External Card ($30): https://www.ebay.com/itm/LSI-6GB-16-Port-SAS-SATA-HBA-Controller-Card-SAS9201-16e-H3-25379-01G-Grade-A/273461892263?hash=item3fab9954a7:g:CSMAAOSwfkFbm-XI:sc:USPSFirstClass!33175!US!-1
Mini-SAS Passthrough (2 x $30): https://www.amazon.com/CableDeconn-SFF-8088-SFF-8087-Adapter-bracket/dp/B00PRXOQFA
8087 to SATA (4 x $8): https://www.amazon.com/CableCreation-SFF-8087-female-Internal-Splitter/dp/B013JP7YI8/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_147_bs_lp_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=AYXPARRHH92MDMM64NJJ
8088 to 8088 (4 x $15): https://www.amazon.com/CableDeconn-SAS26P-SFF-8088-External-Attached/dp/B00S7KTXW6/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1537045400&sr=1-3&keywords=8088+to+8088
Edit: Please don't hesitate to ask questions before spending money, just make us a diagram showing where your disks are and where you want to hook them up.
Note that you’ll want a SAS to sata breakout cable like this
Yeah, that's the forward breakout cable I mentioned - like this one here. Useful to have around just in general. There's also reverse breakouts, but those are to go from SAS controllers that use SATA ports on the motherboard (like the Supermicro X10SL7-F - the 8 blue SATA connectors on there are a SAS controller) to a SAS backplane or expander card. You can occasionally get one to work as the other, but the odds are against you so better to get the right one.
Man, you rock. Thanks so much for explaining that - that makes complete sense now. I really appreciate you taking time out of your day to help me.
And yea, I'm going to go with my first option (again, thank you). I realized that the wider cable that includes the power connection doesn't actually provide power - you still have to connect the PS to the back of the cable connector. I'll definitely look into the SATA Power splitters if I need more - so thanks for that too!
Someone mentioned the PSU. I'm currently running a MemTest now and it's been 12 hours and still going, even though at the bottom of the screen it says, "No Problems found. Press ESC to close this."
However, I did flash a DELL LSI PERC H310 Card to IT Mode late last night and moved around the PSU SATA Cable connecter from 1 PSU Slot to a different one. Hopefully one of these fixes it....
If it is my SATA Controller on the MoBo, how do I move the 4 HDD's to the PERC Card? Wouldn't unRAID say, "Can't find Disk 1...2...3..and 4?" all at once?
Once I get home tonight from work, I'm gonna reboot the machine from MemTest and see if the PSU fixed it. If not, I'll try the PERC Card.
I'm also looking at this. For the PERC H310 Card.
https://www.amazon.com/CableCreation-SFF-8087-female-Internal-Splitter/dp/B013JP7YI8/ref=pd_sbs_147_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B013JP7YI8&pd_rd_r=0c2d730b-d164-11e8-be0e-cd6c78f4137c&pd_rd_w=Lqtg3&pd_rd_wg=gkeAw&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=7d5d9c3c-5e01-44ac-97fd-261afd40b865&pf_rd_r=VMPYSSA4Q6Y2HSVCQ6SW&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=VMPYSSA4Q6Y2HSVCQ6SW