I have a new HP Proliant Microserver that I'm working on setting up. Its motherboard doesn't support RAID 5 so I got an Areca RAID card to help with that. However, I have hit an unexpected difficulty...
The HDDs are set up in caddys that interface with a backplane. The four backplanes are hardwired into a SFF 8087 connector that plugs into the motherboard. My Areca RAID card, however, has 4 SATA Ports. I've seen a ton of SFF 8087 connectors on the web that break out to 4 SATA ports, but I have searched and searches and have yet to find anything that allows you to connect a SFF 8087 plug at one end and convert it to 4x SATA ports. I would really appreciate if someone knows of such an animal, because I am seriously at a loss and am contemplating some drastic actions (i.e. spending some quality time with some wirecutters, a multimeter, a soldering iron, and electrical tape) which I'd rather not have to take for fear of voiding the warranty.
Also, just to clarify, I was really hoping that the backplane had SATA terminations on the back. I was very disappointed when I found that to not be the case...
The HDDs are set up in caddys that interface with a backplane. The four backplanes are hardwired into a SFF 8087 connector that plugs into the motherboard. My Areca RAID card, however, has 4 SATA Ports. I've seen a ton of SFF 8087 connectors on the web that break out to 4 SATA ports, but I have searched and searches and have yet to find anything that allows you to connect a SFF 8087 plug at one end and convert it to 4x SATA ports. I would really appreciate if someone knows of such an animal, because I am seriously at a loss and am contemplating some drastic actions (i.e. spending some quality time with some wirecutters, a multimeter, a soldering iron, and electrical tape) which I'd rather not have to take for fear of voiding the warranty.
Also, just to clarify, I was really hoping that the backplane had SATA terminations on the back. I was very disappointed when I found that to not be the case...
