Please help me make sure I get the right SAS breakout cables

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That cable will only work to connect sata drives to your lsi card. It will not support sas drives (without an adapter)
 
Its to connect to sas backplanes for control features. Not used if connecting directly to drives.
 
Patrick, I'm confused. The image is blurry, but the picture and description sure sound like you put an SAS drive on using the power+data connector, no? Jordan, if this supports SAS drives, with power+data at the drive end, you need a power connector at the other end, no? The other connector on the non-drive end is just data?
 
danswartz, you are very confused.

I commented on the first one, not the second blurry one was posted AFTER me.

The first one is, sas to sata fanout cable with led light header.

The second one is sas to sas fanout cable with led light header.

The first one can be used for sata disks only, or single ported sas disks (never seen one of these ever).

The second one can be used for sas or sata disks, but is funky cause of the power connectors.

The 8/10 pin led header does not need to be used.

IF you have a sas backplane, that breaks out to sata ports, you can use that first cable to plug it in (the supermicro tq chassis models), this will give you sata or sas drive support, since the backplane actually connects to the drives, and not the cable.

If you just have a normal tower case, without any backplanes, the second cable is most flexable, but annoying cause of the power connectors, and if you only plan to use sata drives, the first one is a more friendly option.

That extra 8/10pin header, only blinks lights, nothing more, it gives you the active status lights for each drive, if you have some kind of backplane.
 
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