I bought 2 cables for a FreeNAS array of 8 hard drives in 2019. I used them with an LSI HBA and a Rosewill case. I had trouble with the hard drive connections when I initially set them up. Occasionally a drive would go offline. I assumed that his was poor contact with the hot swap bays and re-seat the drives until they came online. Recently I discovered the issue: one of the SATA connections on the Mini SAS Male SFF-8087 to 4 Female SATA cables does not reliably connect. From my /var/log/messages I get these errors:
Oct 7 23:52:42 freenas mps0: Controller reported scsi ioc terminated tgt 9 SMID 2103 loginfo 31120303