The SFF-8482 is a connector design for interfacing a connection for SAS drives, both SAS Hard drives and SAS SSD drives.
The SFF-8482 is a 29-pin connector with a plastic body, and configured with 4pins/15pins that support the power requirements of the drive, and (2) groups of 7 pins that carry the SAS data signals.
enables you to connect e.g. a controller with mini SAS 36pin connector (SFF 8087) to 4 SAS (SFF 8482) HDD.
Hard Disk Fanout Raid cableHost: SFF-8087 connector
Target: 4xSFF-8482 SAS connectorWith 4pin/15pin power connector