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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!

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[โ€“] Valmond 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

The link in Sanctus post says its SAS to SATA but the other way around doesn't work for cheap converters ๐Ÿ˜ž

[โ€“] y0din 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

there is cheap controllers as well btw:

https://a.aliexpress.com/_ExfUSap

lots of cheap electronics for all your needs over there :)

[โ€“] Valmond 2 points 11 hours ago

Ha ha yes my home is filled with unsuspectedly good stuff from aliexpress ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] y0din 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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)

[โ€“] Valmond 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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).

[โ€“] y0din 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

you can, if you read my edited post, as long as the SATA logo is present on the label of the sas drive

as mentioned in the description of the product

[โ€“] Valmond 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Thank you!

Mine is suspiciously looking like yours ๐Ÿ˜ 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 โ‚ฌ to see ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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)

[โ€“] Valmond 1 points 9 hours ago

Thanks! Crossing my fingers ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] y0din 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Valmond 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'll get the converter, I'll let you know how it pans out, and a huge thank you!!

[โ€“] y0din 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

no worries! ๐Ÿ™‚

crossing my fingers for you while we wait ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] Valmond 1 points 9 hours ago