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!

  • GeorgimusPrime
    61·
    26 days ago

    I’ve seen SAS-SATA adapters for sale online. I got a 120GB used SAS, and it’s cheaper to buy another drive than to order the adapter.

    • AniviaDeutsch
      10·
      26 days ago

      Those adapters only work for plugging SATA drives into SAS controllers. You can’t use an adapter to plug a SAS drive into a SATA port

      • ValmondOP
        10·
        26 days ago

        Well sometimes it can, it seems.

        I’ll try to be back and tell :-)

        • AniviaDeutsch
          10·
          26 days ago

          No, they can’t. You need a SAS controller for a SAS drive, there is no way around it

          • ValmondOP
            10·
            26 days ago

            Check out y0dins post below, there are SAS drives with SATA compatibility it seems.