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I was wondering if it is possible to do the following:

  1. Connect a motherboard's SATA ports to a SFF-8087 SAS interface
  2. Connect the above cable to a internal SFF-8087 to external SFF-8088 adapter
  3. Connect this SFF-8088 adapter to an external SAS enclosure that has internal SATA 3 drive connectors but an external SFF-8088 adapter

The goal of doing this is to:

Place all system drives in an external enclosure with no requirement to be able to boot from a drive in the external enclosure (though it is considered a bonus if able to do so).

In terms of real world products it would look like this:

Motherboard > 4x SATA to SFF-8087 > SFF-8087 to SFF-8088 Adapter > External SFF-8088 Cable > External SAS Enclosure

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Yes it would work as you wish. I believe you must be careful with (1) where you need SATA to SAS reverse breakout cable /not forward breakout one/.

The only problem I see you might have (happened to me with my enclosure) is if you use SAS drives in that enclosure /but you say that you will use 3 SATA drives/ so it should be ok.

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