I bought some hard drives from FB marketplace, and the post not saying they were SAS drives or even showing that much they had the Dell caddys on them, went and drove 30 minutes to buy them. 2x 4 TB for $40, i had my head up my butt salivating at the deal so I didn’t look any closer

I realized they were SAS and i was like “Oh, i could just buy an adapter and it’ll be fine”

It was not fine. I learned you can use SATA drives in a SAS back-plane but not reversed. So I decided to just put it into my homelab but that doesnt support SAS either.

Any advice? Thank you very much!

  • kY2iB3yH0mN8wI2h@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    super cheap SAS controller

    so you don’t care if they will protect your data or not? if they were super-cheap like that they could be broken or about to break. could be 10+ years old. do you really want to spend more money???

    • cruzaderNO@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      impressed how much you got out of just wanting a cheap one tbh

      Tho i would expect 10+ year old stuff to be dirt cheap, i would not expect it to be stuff people are actualy buying anymore.