Question 1

There are 8 hot-swap drive bays in this case; does the backplane support running all of them off a couple of mini-sas 8087 cables, or do all the drives have to be connected individually?

Accepted Answer

There is a back plane yes so each drive plugs into a pcb with appropriate sas/sata connectors. Power is provided via back plane however there are 8 connectors on the back of the PCB with each running into thir owm sas sata cable. I will check again as there might be a 8087 connector for a sas card as well with a jumoer to enable. Im using mine for a ZFS platform so using all motherboard connectors direct.

Question 2

Does the backplane support SAS 12 gb/s? 
( I will be installing a 12 gb/s raid controller in a slot. )

Accepted Answer

Nope 6g only

Question 3

Is the speed of data transfer from SATA III hard drives, connected to "Hard Drive Backplane w/AMI MG9072" in the chassis "CSE-743TQ-865B-SQ" limited upto the speed of SATA I/SATA II standards?

Accepted Answer

Very much so.

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