A well made version of this cable at a fair price. The SAS connectors are solid and the pull rings are a handy touch. The cable is a bit stiff; if they can find a way to make it more flexible it would be a five star.

I used them to stack Dell N2048P switches. It has been 60 days and no stack failures due to connectivity.

The price was reasonable, however when attaching this to 6gbps drives you get a lot of command timeouts. It took me a while to diagnose this issue until I found somebody having similar issues during heavy write bandwidth saturation. After a laborious amount of debugging with the controller I decided to buy a different 8088 cable rated for 6gbps line speeds and lo and behold, my issues disappeared.

I'm requesting a refund. To be fair the product description never claimed to be 6gbps rated, but that information should be posted.

PROS: Probably works just fine for 3gbps SATA / SAS drives.

CONS: You get worrisome command errors if you use it with 6gbps drives.

5/5

PROS: Quick delivery

CONS: None

I purchased this to hook up an MSA60 to a smart Array 800 and it worked great.

PROS: Nice cable. Good ends

CONS: None

eSAS cable, what more can I say?

PROS: What I expected, price is great.

CONS: none