Highpoint RocketStor 6661A-mSAS1 Thunderbolt 3 to 1x Mini-SAS Port Adapter (4X SATA Channels)

hello guys so today's video is about SAS cable selection this is one of the most frequent questions I get from buyers who buy IT mode HP 8 cards from me things like this this is an h3 10 with IT firmware already pre flashed and I sell these on my eBay store the artist server and a lot of times people buy this card they're getting ready to build their FreeNAS server and then you know the media question afterwards they buy the card is well what kind of cable do I need to connect this to my hard drives or to my backplane and whatnot so if you've been around computers for the last decade or so you're probably pretty familiar in the consumer space connecting hard drives usually involves these SATA connectors and SATA connectors have been around for quite a long time now and its predecessor the IDE connector was around for a quite a long time as well so in the consumer space these hard drive