I've seen a cheap deal for some SAS drives that are bigger in capacity
and faster than the current SATA drives
Otherwise I will have to invest in a enterprise grade server case to
support SAS drives properly.
I've seen a cheap deal for some SAS drives that are bigger in capacity
and faster than the current SATA drives
Otherwise I will have to invest in a enterprise grade server case to
support SAS drives properly.
I don't know the answer to your question, but is it possible the
awkwardness of using these drives explains their cheapness?
Otherwise I will have to invest in a enterprise grade server case to
support SAS drives properly.
On 17/08/2022 10:24, SH wrote:
Otherwise I will have to invest in a enterprise grade server case to
support SAS drives properly.
AN old G7 Microserver? I'm seeing them parted out for their backplanes.
HP Proliant Microserver Gen 7 Backplane Mini SAS SFF-8087 to SATA / SAS https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304564660421
The cabling is SAS, however the on-motherboard controller is not. That
can be fixed by adding a SAS controller. They are cheap (some below
£20!) and currently I'm searching recommendations.
The board end connector on the cable is "SFF-8087" and for me this looks
a candidate (from https://n40l.fandom.com/wiki/Raid)
HP Smart Array P212 ZM
I have a stack of 3.5" SAS drives acquired after completing buy-it-now
on ebay, and then finding my foot in my mouth - I actually needed 2.5"
So mine will be a box to totally backup my QNAP NAS, which did not amuse
me last week when after restarting it, it decided to unlink the home directory for all authenticated users. This causing me to imagine the
worse for most of my profile held stuff. It didn't help, that I was
dealing with a disk failure and rebuilding the new drive at the same time.
Hello all,
I have a domestic personal PC in a Tower case that has two Adaptec
7805T controllers. These controllers can work with either SATA or SAS
drives.
I currently use SATA drives on the Adaptec 7805 cards and this is
being used as a NAS.
I've seen a cheap deal for some SAS drives that are bigger in capacity
and faster than the current SATA drives
I understand that SATA drives have 2 seperate connectors for power and
data whereas on SAS drives they are one physical connector that
carries both power and data.
Now the Adaptec cards clearly only have data connecotrs. Typically SAS
drives are used with a SAS backplane in enterprise grade servers.
So can I get away with SAS breakout cables like these in order to use
my exisiting case and Adaptec 7805 cards with SAS drives or am I
overlooking something?
Sometrhing like this:
https://www.newegg.com/3ware-cbl-sas8087ocf-06m/p/N82E16816116091
(there are reports of SAS drives not being recognised consistently
where an alternative method is used to a SAS backplane)
Otherwise I will have to invest in a enterprise grade server case to
support SAS drives properly.
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