Forward Vs Reverse Breakout Cable

I bought my motherboard to use the lsi3008 as a sata hba and then promptly forgot to by breakout cables.

Forward vs reverse breakout cable.

Live and learn i guess. I can only find 1 1 aka straight through or crossover. I have no clue what cables i need to get. But they are not exchangeable.

Eur usd and gbp usd are both approaching a key decision zone. One fans out from an sff 8087 connector say an hba a forward breakout cable and the other concentrates say from a motherboard to an sff 8087 passive backplane reverse breakout kangmin cao april 3. The cable is showing a potential head and shoulders chart pattern for instance whereas the eur. Also 8087 4x 7pin sata cables come in two variants forward and reverse breakout.

I actually by mistake bought the cable you are looking for the phrase is. Those cables sff 8087 sas sata look identical reverse vs forward except small description on the package or on the site. 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. Now my issue is.

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. If you have a motherboard and want to make use of a hotswap bay much like that in. 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.

I just need a definite confirmation that forward equals 1 1 or a specific test i could conduct e g. Somehow forward and reverse are not common specifications here. On forward cables pin x on minisas connects to pin y on the first sata. 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.

There is an excellent answer to this question in a post by barrygordon over on the unraid server community. A bearish reverse or a bullish break. 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.

I hope this is the right thread to post my sas conudrums.