This is a SAS1 backplane, half bandwidth of SAS2, will also likely have issues with drives > 2.2TB, fill up the front backplane first, then connect both cables from one HBA to the back baclplane to check if it supports dual link, you can confirm with the output of:
cat /sys/class/sas_host/host#/device/port-#\:0/sas_port/port-#\:0/num_phys
Replace all the #s with the correct host number, if you don't known post the diags, if the output is 4 it means single link, 8 means dual link.