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!
Haven’t tried it myself, but there is cheap converters available on AliExpress:
https://a.aliexpress.com/_EwYtdeV
Might be worth it to avoid using it as a paperweight?
The link in Sanctus post says its SAS to SATA but the other way around doesn’t work for cheap converters 😞
there is cheap controllers as well btw:
https://a.aliexpress.com/_ExfUSap
lots of cheap electronics for all your needs over there :)
sorry if I misunderstood, but wasn’t his drive sas, and he needed to go to sata connections? this does that.
sas hdd => sata controller connetions
the converter is not the culprit, the drive needs a sata logo on the label for it to work the other way, which is mentioned on the sales page.
if the drive had that logo or not is not mentioned as far as I can see
(edit, thought it was OP replying at first, so changed that, and added requirements for the adapter)
That’s exactly what I’d like to find, but you cannot, it seems, connect a SAS disk to a SATA slot on the mobo, only the other way around, with this adapter.
The comments also seems to say exactly that (you have to put 4 or 5 stars to comment, so that’s a useless measure, gotta read those translated comments).
