Review on SFF 8482 Hard Disk Drive Adapter by Chris Burns

IMPORTANT: If you don't understand the difference between SAS and SATA drives and what you need to use SAS drives in your system, don't even think about this to buy. As a result, SAS drives will NOT work with SATA controllers found in consumer PCs and NAS devices. This adapter is not suitable for this. If you don't understand why, do yourself a favor and do not purchase this item. Instead, spend your money on a good book on computer architecture. However, these are decent little adapters at a good price. I use them with an SFF-8087 drop cable on an LSI 9212-4i4e to connect bare SAS drives on a workbench for testing and other odd jobs. There's nothing fancy about them, but they work well, and this setup saves me from plugging and unplugging drives into the SAN just to run some tests or clean them up for decommissioning. Very useful for what they are intended for. Pro's Note: One of the downsides of these adapters is that they partially block the diagnostic serial port on some drive models, mostly Seagate. You can easily reach the pins on most Seagate hard drives with a single-pin ribbon cable, but a standard multi-pin connector will not work. It's not a deal-killer, but it does make diagnosing and recovering data a bit more of a hassle. One star deducted for this problem. Everything else is fine.