I was wondering if it is possible to do the following:
- Connect a motherboard's SATA ports to a SFF-8087 SAS interface
- Connect the above cable to a internal SFF-8087 to external SFF-8088 adapter
- 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