Re: Anyone able to advise on SAS hard discs and SAS controllers in a domestic home PC?

On 17/08/2022 10:59, GB wrote:
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>> I've seen a cheap deal for some SAS drives that are bigger in capacity 
>> and faster than the current SATA drives
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>> Otherwise I will have to invest in a enterprise grade server case to 
>> support SAS drives properly.
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> I don't know the answer to your question, but is it possible the 
> awkwardness of using these drives explains their cheapness?
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I had wondered about that....

after a bit of digging around, it would appear that SAS backplane cages 
are available......

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143564355591?epid=151946973&hash=item216d1a3807:g:H0MAAOSwA6ViwfgB&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoONKWb7RLoPO86G%2B2Lg1rbhS6bAuaLh8LZmOkQsTm43u7Nq86qjShvVxH7xJCgUwbrq5pIN9JFL52LG%2Bcx9YpNDoJhd2COMUFIOiqoCFk0DIqsKc%2B%2BZ7SPfOtrom2TuohRxuZ2Ug0skOuVGE95CF9%2BQ8AKB00zAi0T43Dz1YvCE3r3x8ZlB%2FnH2rpewsTUX0iTWOMdVpOEuesOgaL%2BumTIA%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_TNrL3VYA

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354092678212?epid=28025326008&hash=item5271917c44:g:kBQAAOSw9DRimfbe&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoNzljaD6%2FrDO97ABqT05UK68tFXbQiUalw2M%2BbMRNUNP9k110nc1CLtow9FG8AIIJzS7HRQ6PxVOilXlgqter95n8jA1xoFgOEViDqdfr3MkdfaLSMuZ%2BGpomMj%2BQ6fpoYDDNCfcBugosxXFdYruIQ5lRUvuaONtBpjuawi5ctCz3HNe8yzqZ1mz%2BRcklgaY7V2kfdhhu%2F3IcKKnlzi%2BahU%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-yZiLPVYA


Some of these cages are for LFF SAS drives, some are for SFF SAS drives 
and they seem to be able to hold either 4 or 8 drives....

My Tower case has 6 removable blanking plates for up to 6 5.25 inch 
drives (like CD rom /DVD rom) so I wonder if one of these SAS backplane 
cages could fit?

S.