CableCreation [2 Pack] Mini SAS 36Pin (SFF-8087) Male To 4 SATA 7Pin Female Cable Review

Works flawlessly so far. Individual cables are quite thin and feel fragile. I would feel better if they had another layer of insulation to make them feel a bit tighter. Otherwise they work fine.

They appear strong and well made but on my new item a connector did not work. Luckily I still had an old Sas cable which saved me some time. I'm not sure if that was the only bad cable, but how hard is it to make a damn cable?

Good buy. They've been sitting in my box with no raids for over a month with no read or write errors or any issues. Definitely thin and fragile, be careful when handling them, no pinching or tight corners and you'll be fine. I've had the shorter version of this for almost 8 years with no problems. Had to get longer ones though when I changed covers and they fit the bill.

Started throwing a ton of read errors on one of the drives. Still with that cable, I could still unplug the drive, erase, and then try to add it back to the array, but there were still a lot of read errors right after attempting a rebuild. Replaced the cable with another brand (Cable Matters) and everything is fine, reinstalled with no errors. I have another one in another box and it hasn't failed in the same time yet.

I use it in one of my NAS boxes on a Supermicro SC743 chassis with a SC743 SAS backplane. Since the cables aren't that long, it just fits in perfectly without a lot of cables. The thickness of the cable allows for more flexibility and helps with airflow to other motherboard components as I have 4 intake fans on this case. to LSI 9211-8i HBA and still no SATA/SAS data errors. I'm very satisfied with this product.

I had to replace miniSAS with 4x SATA on my Dell PowerEdge T420 as the latter was kinked and stopped working. Since it shows it's used to connect to motherboards, I took a chance instead of paying $30 for the official part. This item works, but there is a communication error with the drives that makes it unusable in the T420. I then tried an ASR-2405 PCIe adapter and a pair of ASR-6405 and ASR-6405E PCIe adapters, with which this cable works very well.

I bought two 1.0m cables and they are perfect for running cables from my Areca 1882ix -12 The PCIe controller RAID in my 2010 Mac Pro, above the fan, up through the opening under the 5.25" drive bay, behind the back panel and in the same area where the original drive cables come out, and always is still long enough for 5 the .25" drive cage to slide in and out easily without having to disconnect cables, allowing connections to be made while the drive cage is pulled out for better access. To do…