I bought some hard drives from FB marketplace, and the post not saying they were SAS drives or even showing that much they had the Dell caddys on them, went and drove 30 minutes to buy them. 2x 4 TB for $40, i had my head up my butt salivating at the deal so I didn’t look any closer

I realized they were SAS and i was like “Oh, i could just buy an adapter and it’ll be fine”

It was not fine. I learned you can use SATA drives in a SAS back-plane but not reversed. So I decided to just put it into my homelab but that doesnt support SAS either.

Any advice? Thank you very much!

  • _xulionBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    search lsi 9300-8i on eBay. 12G SAS3 under $20 nowadays.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Really depends on the system you’re trying to connect them to. Are we talking about a server motherboard? consumer motherboard? old laptop?

    You can buy PCIe SAS cards (look for a Host Bus Adapter), but you’ll want to research whether the card you want to use is compatible with your motherboard/CPU and whether or not it has drivers for the OS you’re using before you buy one. These are intended for servers, so they’re very hit-and-miss with consumer hardware.

  • kY2iB3yH0mN8wI2hBEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    super cheap SAS controller

    so you don’t care if they will protect your data or not? if they were super-cheap like that they could be broken or about to break. could be 10+ years old. do you really want to spend more money???