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Weird cable request - SFF-8470 Reverse Breakout

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MarkL

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Hey all,

I'm hoping someone may just have a few of these cables sitting around collecting dust.. I am looking for 3x SFF-8470 Reverse Breakout cables.

I have an old 12disk chassis here with 3 SFF-8470 ports that I'd like to hook up to a couple of sata HBA's I have.. but it's almost impossible to find this cable any more and any place that I can find it it wants over $100 per cable! I'm trying to get some life out of the old chassis but over $300 isn't worth it... It used to have a 3ware 9550SXU-12 ML connected but these cards are complete garbage so I want to use the breakout + 2 x AOC-SAT2-MV8's instead..

So if anyone has some of these lying around I'd be very happy to give them a new loving home..


Thanks!
 
http://www.computercablesource.com/external-4x-to-4-sata-430.html

looks like ~33 bucks for a 0.5m cable or 40 bucks for a 1m cable.
I bought 2 SFF8087 (host) -> SFF8470 (target) from them and they were delivered quickly and worked. Quality seems fine. Not much more you can ask for. I did like that they were explicit about the host vs. target side - made it much more clear what was being ordered.

Specifically you want the ones that list (8470 - TARGET) and (SATA - HOST).
 
ChrisBenn said:
http://www.computercablesource.com/external-4x-to-4-sata-430.html

looks like ~33 bucks for a 0.5m cable or 40 bucks for a 1m cable.
I bought 2 SFF8087 (host) -> SFF8470 (target) from them and they were delivered quickly and worked. Quality seems fine. Not much more you can ask for. I did like that they were explicit about the host vs. target side - made it much more clear what was being ordered.

Specifically you want the ones that list (8470 - TARGET) and (SATA - HOST).
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Wow.. Thanks. I hadn't found them so cheap. I guess I'll wait and see if anyone has any old ones lying around and otherwise will probably end up ordering from there. Cheers!

diizzy said:
Care to explain why the 3ware cards are "garbage"?
//Danne
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I meant the 9550SXU is crap, not 3ware cards in general. Generally poor IOPS performance and the card blocks IO on the entire system when busy..
 
Sounds more like a driver issue to me, is this in Windows or what are you running?
//Danne
 
diizzy said:
Sounds more like a driver issue to me, is this in Windows or what are you running?
//Danne
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Linux and also FreeBSD... tuned everything I could find, improved things but still was bad. I agree at the root it's probably a driver issue - but if the latest driver is shite and they aren't doing any updates, then the card is worthless..
 
I have about 700 of the suckers.....30cm long

Pay for postage from Australia and you can have 3 of them
 
Stanza33 said:
I have about 700 of the suckers.....30cm long

Pay for postage from Australia and you can have 3 of them
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Wow - awesome!

I figured there must be someone with a box full somewhere... PM sent!
 
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