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!
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
Well sometimes it can, it seems.
I’ll try to be back and tell :-)
No, they can’t. You need a SAS controller for a SAS drive, there is no way around it
Check out y0dins post below, there are SAS drives with SATA compatibility it seems.