Dual Mini SAS SFF-8088 to SFF-8087 Mini SAS Adapter, with Low Profile and Full-Height Profile Bracket

Good working adapter for SFF-8087 (internal SAS2) and SFF-8088 (external SAS2) on empty PCIe slot.It could be installed properly in the PCIe slot with a full-height bracket.However, It cannot be inserted into the PCIe slot with a low-profile bracket (due to a wrong direction and length of the low-profile bracket included.)According to other reviews, it should be working fine with a low-profile bracket from LSI external SAS2 RAID controller, such as LSI 9286CV-8e.Because I had a bunch of LSI 9286CV-8e controllers from Lenovo SA120 units, I could use a low-profile bracket from it.With a LSI low-profile bracket it can be mounted in the low-profile PCIe slot as expected.Other cheaper adapters (with a small gap between two SFF-8088 ports) will not work with a low-profile bracket, even though we can use an LSI one.I highly recommended this adapter for someone who wants to connect internal-external SAS2 devices with a low-profile chassis, such as 2U servers.

Unlike another common 8087 to 8088 adapter which had the two ports slightly spaced apart, this one fits into the low profile pic slot (the pcb of the other is too tall, even though it includes a half height bracket). There isn’t much to the product other than that. It’s a simple pcb, so not much to go wrong or anything else. It does use the same bracket as the lsi 9207-8e cards I have. It’s not really a huge deal, but because I have spare half height and full higher brackets, it’s nice to know they are interchangeable if I ever need to switch out the brackets later on.Great product for what it does. I recommend it.

It's a little more expensive than I'd like for what it is, however this adapter worked quite well for converting an existing SAS backplane chassis into a JBOD enclosure. My RAID controller had no problems detecting the backplane/drives through this adapter, and all features such as disk hot swap and drive locate worked fine.Unlike some competing products, there was no mounting issues or bracket spacing problems -- it fit into the case just like any normal expansion card might.

As others said, the half height bracket may be backwards, but the full height worked perfectly. Very solid click connection with an 8088 cable outside and 8087 inside.

Great exactly what I was looking and from a reputable brand. For my diy disk shelf. I have an LSI- 9207-8e card and connecting this to my server and a sff-8088 cable connecting the two together.

Tried another (less expensive) brand, and there were problems (with the adapter? cabling? HBA adapter?). This one working out of the box.

Works great. Used it to hook up my external raid from the extra port on my internal RocketRaid card.

Product works great. No modifications needed to securely fit in case.