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!
Why buy a used drive? Save $12? F that.
I don’t know where you live but I got the drive for 30€ including shipping, a new drive is over 100€…
And then two years down the line you lose all the data - the pictures, the savegames, the porn collection. Drives are the one thing that shouldn’t be bought used
Not if you have a proper backup plan.
I have about 200ish TB or about 24 drives and 3 of them failed all are used. I have a solid backup plan so no issues with failing drives. Saves me roughly 100-200 a drive.
New drives have infant mortality as well. An inverse bell curve would be the distribution.
Look, i’m buying two hard drives no matter what to anticipate a drive failure. In that case, if i’m anticipating a failure anyway, might as well buy them second-hand and, yes, save a ton of money.
The key is to look for a CrystalDiskInfo screenshot in the ad, which is indicative of a serious seller and also lets you know the drive’s condition. If you buy from a professional, you may get a warranty.
bullshit. drives should be backed up if the data is important which makes refurb and used drives perfectly acceptable. raid and good backups exists for a reason and don’t leave you to rely on one single drive to live forever.
if you’re buying large drives and not using a system with raid functionality, you’re setting yourself up for failure, new drive or not. no crying you were warned.
I learned the hard way when the cheap PSU blew up and took with it the mobo, my drive and my backup drive. That was the year 2000 or 2001.
Since then I do have a good backup strategy (with most important stuff on amazon glacier).
So you learned the hard way losing your porn stash 😉 ?
Jk, and the drive is not for important stuff.
I’ve seen SAS-SATA adapters for sale online. I got a 120GB used SAS, and it’s cheaper to buy another drive than to order the adapter.
Those adapters only work for plugging SATA drives into SAS controllers. You can’t use an adapter to plug a SAS drive into a SATA port
No, they can’t. You need a SAS controller for a SAS drive, there is no way around it
The search brings up these scary words. It says you are 100% fucked.
At the same time, I see those cheap ass converters on Amazon >.> I have never tried one.
You can adapt SATA drives to an SAS controller, but you cannot adapt SAS drives to a SATA controller.
Yeah I’m gonna put my chips on the side of “these 8 dollar converters won’t work”
But maybe OP is brave idk
Yust buy a SAS controller (with cables), they are used pretty cheap.
Buy a cheap (used?) SAS controller. No big deal.
On ebay.fr they are like the price of the drive (around 25€ with shipping) :-(
