I have an unusual situation with my new supermicro case. It is a TQ backplane, which came pre-cabled, 16 bays with 4 cables: 4xSata [at backplane] to SAS (one of the sff-8087) meant to plug into a HBA.
for one of these cables i want to connect another cable SAS to 4xsata to take advantage of some mobo ports, so i dont have to buy another HBA card.
basically i want to change
[backplane-> 4 sata -> sas -> HBA] to
[backplane -> 4 sata-> sas -> sas-> 4sata ->mobo]
I need to know A ) is this a good idea or going to cause problems
and B) what kind of cable to breakout the sas back to 4 sata? IE SAS female to 4xsata male.
Sorry if this is confusing. I know i could also just pull out one of the SAS to SATA cables and put in 4 SATA cables from backplane directly to mobo, but it's a big cabling mess already and i dont want to mess with it.
for one of these cables i want to connect another cable SAS to 4xsata to take advantage of some mobo ports, so i dont have to buy another HBA card.
basically i want to change
[backplane-> 4 sata -> sas -> HBA] to
[backplane -> 4 sata-> sas -> sas-> 4sata ->mobo]
I need to know A ) is this a good idea or going to cause problems
and B) what kind of cable to breakout the sas back to 4 sata? IE SAS female to 4xsata male.
Sorry if this is confusing. I know i could also just pull out one of the SAS to SATA cables and put in 4 SATA cables from backplane directly to mobo, but it's a big cabling mess already and i dont want to mess with it.