Y-Splitter for SFF-8087 cable

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Don.key

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Hi Folks,

Is there such thing as SFF-8087 splitter cable that splits one SFF-8087 connector into two? I have seen plenty of usual 1 x SFF-8087 - 4 x SATA cables but no 1 x SFF-8087 - 2 x SFF-8087 yet.

It is well understood that each of the two SFF-8087 will carry only two SATA ports in them but this is precisely what I want.

My problem is: I have 8 disks backplane with 2 x SFF-8087 uplinks and wish to have 6 disks from that backplane on one controller and 2 on another....

Thanks
 

nthu9280

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Each of the 8087 ports on the back plane connect to 4 drives. You can only split 4 drives to each controller with your setup.
If you had individual SATA connectors on the backplane, you could connect any combination of drives.
 

ari2asem

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Dec 26, 2018
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your only way (with your 2* sff-8087 backplane and your wish combination) is to connect your hdds to sata ports, with reverse breakout sff-8087 -> sata.

so, hba with sata ports and reverse breakout cables

or

not sff-8087

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