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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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