Hardware Cable and Adapter Compatibility Finder
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Instantly identify the exact cables and adapters your hardware needs, then find them available for purchase near you.
Added Nov 7, 2025
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The Problem
IT professionals and hardware enthusiasts waste hours trying to identify obscure cables and adapters for specific hardware components like server RAID cards, thin clients, and legacy systems. Even when they determine the correct part number, they struggle to find suppliers with stock, reasonable shipping times, or regional availability, often facing weeks-long delays from overseas vendors.
Potential Solution
A searchable database tool where users input hardware model numbers or upload photos to instantly identify required cables and adapters with exact specifications and part numbers. The platform aggregates real-time inventory from multiple suppliers, filtered by user location and shipping speed, and suggests compatible alternatives when exact matches are unavailable or out of stock.
Why Now?
The explosion of homelab setups, hardware repurposing trends, and global supply chain disruptions have made cable/adapter sourcing increasingly complex. Modern hardware diversity means more proprietary connectors and less standardization, creating growing friction in hardware deployment.
Supermicro RAID Card Cable
We have a Supermicro SYS-111C-NR and recently purchased an additional RAID Card for it - AOC-S3908L-H8iR-16DD. Went through supermicro support for compatibility of the card etc before purchasing and they never mentioned that you need an additional cable to connect it to the backplane. Apparently we now need CBL-SAST-1276F-100 to connect the card. From what I can see these are hard to pickup. Haven't gone through supermicro direct yet. Would there be any generic branded cables that would work or would need to be exact cable they have specified?
I've got a bit of a problem..
So someone was throwing this new HP t630 Thin client so I asked if I could have it but they didn't have the power cable for it. I'm not sure what it's called but if someone could find it for me on Amazon it would be such a great help!
IDC16 VGA header
Kind of a long winded story, but TL;DR: I’ve got an old Cisco ASA I’d like to get Debian installed on, it’s got an IDC 16 pin header on the motherboard for VGA output - I know such adapters exist, problem is, I can’t seem to find any that are in the UK or Europe - they all seem to be stateside and would take weeks to even ship. Question is: does anyone know how I could make my own or does anyone know of a source in the UK or Europe that sells these adapters?
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