Hello,
Bought a spare super cheap used 3TB drive a year ago, and just figured out it’s not a SATA but a SAS drive.
How fucked am I? What can I do more than using it as a paperweight?
Cheers!
Hello,
Bought a spare super cheap used 3TB drive a year ago, and just figured out it’s not a SATA but a SAS drive.
How fucked am I? What can I do more than using it as a paperweight?
Cheers!
The link in Sanctus post says its SAS to SATA but the other way around doesn’t work for cheap converters 😞
sorry if I misunderstood, but wasn’t your drive sas, an you needed to go to sata connections? this does that.
sas hdd => sata controller connetions
That’s exactly what I’d like to find, but you cannot, it seems, connect a SAS disk to a SATA slot on the mobo, only the other way around, with this adapter.
The comments also seems to say exactly that (you have to put 4 or 5 stars to comment, so that’s a useless measure, gotta read those translated comments).
you can, if you read my edited post, as long as the SATA logo is present on the label of the sas drive
as mentioned in the description of the product
Thank you!
Mine is suspiciously looking like yours 😁 but Dell, and without the sticker…
Is it just a Dell rebranded Seagate? I mean Dell doesn’t make drives right? And the serial takes me right to segate drives who are compatible s-ata.
Guess I’ll gamble a couple of € to see 😁
No worries, however I cannot see the SATA marking on yours, just the SAS, or perhaps I am blind, changed contact model today…but please double check before ordering.
And yes, Dell does not manufacture hard drives, so it’s almost 100% a OEM rebranding.
if however, it is this drive it should support SATA
https://www.minitool.com/backup-tips/sas-hard-drive.html?amp
I’ll get the converter, I’ll let you know how it pans out, and a huge thank you!!
no worries! 🙂
crossing my fingers for you while we wait 😄
Ha ha thanks!
Dell drives are rebranded Seagates, however the firmware is slightly modified so the bios recognizes it as a Dell branded drive. Openmanage will throw an error if you use a different drive (though aside from that everything will work fine)
Thanks! Crossing my fingers 😁
there is cheap controllers as well btw:
https://a.aliexpress.com/_ExfUSap
lots of cheap electronics for all your needs over there :)
Ha ha yes my home is filled with unsuspectedly good stuff from aliexpress 😅