Works great out of the box, but will need different cables for SAS drives (despite SAS mentioned multiple times in description)
This HBA card will work with both SATA and SAS drives. The cables, however, will only work with SATA drives. The product description mentions SAS multiple times (SAS HBA, network ports: SAS, external interface: SAS, internal interface: SAS) and only mentions SATA once vaguely in the description immediately after SFF-8087, which is a mini SAS format.
Despite all the references to SAS compatibility, the cables that come with this card will only work with SATA drives. I was able to order a SAS SFF-8087 to SFF-8482 cable and it works perfectly. It just would have been nice to get those cables with the card instead of having to order different ones separately.
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