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!
Thank you!
Mine is suspiciously looking like yours 😁 but Dell, and without the sticker…
Is it just a Dell rebranded Seagate? I mean Dell doesn’t make drives right? And the serial takes me right to segate drives who are compatible s-ata.
Guess I’ll gamble a couple of € to see 😁
Dell drives are rebranded Seagates, however the firmware is slightly modified so the bios recognizes it as a Dell branded drive. Openmanage will throw an error if you use a different drive (though aside from that everything will work fine)
No worries, however I cannot see the SATA marking on yours, just the SAS, or perhaps I am blind, changed contact model today…but please double check before ordering.
And yes, Dell does not manufacture hard drives, so it’s almost 100% a OEM rebranding.
if however, it is this drive it should support SATA
https://www.minitool.com/backup-tips/sas-hard-drive.html?amp
I’ll get the converter, I’ll let you know how it pans out, and a huge thank you!!
