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!

  • CombJelliesAreCool@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve been using LSI SAS 9300-4i4e for my 4u 4 node supermicro server that I begrudgingly need to decommission, wife appeal for the 45u rack is at an all time low and I need to downsize haha

    Sas3 capable and they allow for 4 internal lanes and 4 external lanes so you can use them to connect a JBOD to your server using the external 4 lanes. Solid buy for a homelab if you can find any, the ones with external lanes don’t come up too terribly often.