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A popular way to connect SAS hard drives to a SAS card having SFF-8087 sockets is to use a SFF-8087 to SFF-8482 cable.

One can also find on the market SFF-8087 to SFF-8082 cables, but I could find almost no documentation about the SFF-8082 connector and it seems way less known.

At the beginning, I believed the 0 of 8082 was a typo, because there I could not find documentation about this connector type. However, there is a specification: https://www.optcore.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SFF-8082.pdf

Just wondering about what the SFF-8082 connector is, and its difference with SFF-8482. Is the first an ancestor of the second?

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SFF-8482 is the standard connector on SAS drives, internal cables and backplanes:

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SFF-8082 Specification for Labeling of Ports and Cable Assemblies does not define any connectors, just as you've found. Obviously, they made a mistake and likely wanted to refer to SFF-8482.

Zac67
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  • Thanks. You seem to be right.The abstract of SFF-8082 shows that SAS is only one possible interface of this specification. SFF-8482 is about the SAS connector. – OuzoPower Mar 03 '20 at 13:09