high speed SFF-8088 cable connector that combines

high speed SFF-8088 cable connector that combines four (4) low-cost SATA ... friendly physical enclosure management, specifically its cable-less backplaneThe EnhanceBOX E400 MS is built on the latest I/O technology, the Mini-SAS (MS) connectivity, for multiple-disk configurations and superior performance. The EnhanceBOX E400 MS comes with highly reliable, high speed SFF-8088 cable connector that combines four (4) low-cost SATA or high reliable SAS disks for professional-quality video or applications such as backup and data management for SOHO and SMB users.The Adaptec card has 3 x internal SFF-8088 cable ports and 1 x external SFF-8088 cable port, supporting 12 internal drives.


I have built 4 linux servers with WD2002FYPS drives over the past 3 months, all using Areca 1680ix controllers, and they have not been having drives drop out of the arrays. I did not install any jumpers on the HDD's — they all are set to the default SATA300.Each server has 16 HDD's configured as RAID 6 with a hot spare. I have a Chenbro backplane (RM31616) connected to the Areca.By the way, the Areca 1680ix-16 has four (not three) internal SFF8087 connectors, and one external SFF-8088 cable. It takes just under 10 hours to initialize the RAID 6.