This durable SAS cable features an SFF-8088 cable

 I found that it is highly beneficial to force the individual SFF-8088 cable write caches to "Enabled" with the Areca system menu (then reboot), otherwise the initialization would take days. With a battery backup, when the SFF-8088 cable write cache is set to auto, that corresponds to disabling the write cache, which is normally what you want, but during initialization of the array it is better to have it enabled temporarily.The ISAS88881 1-meter Serial Attached SCSI Cable is designed for high-performance networks, servers, workstations and desktops. The SAS cable features a SFF-8088 cable (external mini-SAS) connector and a SFF-8088 cable (external mini-SAS) connector that supports data transfer rates up to 6 Gbps. The ISAS88882 2-meter Serial Attached SCSI Cable is designed for high-performance networks, servers, workstations and desktops. This durable SAS cable features an SFF-8088 cable (external mini-SAS) connector and an SFF-8088 (external mini-SAS) connector, and supports data transfer rates of up to 6 Gbps Before the popularity of SAS Expanders, people had to use SFF-8088 cable adapters to convert unused internal ports into external ports. This is still common for SATA controllers, or SAS controllers that are not being used with a SAS Expander setup.