Monoprice Data Cable - 2 Meter - Black | 28AWG External Mini SAS 26-pin (SFF-8088) Male to Mini SAS 26-pin (SFF-8088) Male Cable

I just completed a ZFS on Linux deployment and am very impressed with the results. There is no better deal than a setup like this: very inexpensive with excellent performance. The components were a Supermicro 847 45 drive 4U chasis, an LSI 9200-8e external SAS card, 2 Monoprice 2M SFF-8088 cables, 10 Hitachi Ultrastar 4TB 7K4000 SAS enterprise drives, and a SanDisk Extreme II 480GB SSD (as high speed L2ARC cache and ZIL). Despite running raidz2 in an 8 drive (+2 hot spares) configuration, I have read speeds of 760 MB/s and write speeds of 330 MB/s (on a Dell PowerEdge R610). I have complete confidence that this performance will scale up to saturate the SAS link with read/write speeds of 1 GB/s as I add in more drives, matching performance of my other (much more expensive, commercially sourced) disk arrays. The content on these disk arrays is being served over NFS via Intel 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards with read speeds to RAM on the clients that are in the 500 MB/s range. The entire setup cost less than 6k for 40TB raw capacity; it's beautiful. Total hardware setup time was about 4 hours one afternoon with two people. There isn't much to say about this SAS cable. I needed two to do SAS multipath, and these fit the bill. I've always wondered why SAS cables cost so much, but I imagine it's because they're so heavy duty. The connectors are all solid metal and weigh a ton. The cable itself is also very thick. I suppose when you're pushing 6 GB/s externally, you can't rely on the cheap and thin cabling that most SATA cables are. Given the price of all the other equipment that these cables are piecing together, this is probably one component you wouldn't want to skimp on.

It works great, and there is not much else to say about a cable when it's working properly. It's one of those things that you expect to just work, and you only really think about it when it's causing problems. I'm using it for an LTO-4 tape drive connected to a workstation. Clicks in tight and secure, disconnects just as easily.

Broke a cable and needed a replacement quickly, this did the job

Really good quality and really good prince. Had no issues with plug like I have on some other brands.

Works great. Well made, good price. Performs like all others, but is cheaper than most.

I bought 2 of these for my server. Nothing but problems. Tried an atto cable from another drive array that was working and it worked just fine. I also tried this cable on the drive array that was working with the atto cable and it kept crashing. I guess you get what you pay for.

The cable works well and has a very study feel to it. The retention mechanism is sold as it should be. Monoprice cables are always excellent value for the money and this is another great example of that.

This product is exactly what I expected, great product. The price was significantly better than other places researched. Highly recommended.

Worked well with a Dell MD1200 disk expansion system.