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

On 17/08/2022 15:50, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> On 17/08/2022 10:24, SH wrote:
>>
>> Otherwise I will have to invest in a enterprise grade server case to 
>> support SAS drives properly.
>>
> 
> AN old G7 Microserver? I'm seeing them parted out for their backplanes.
> 
> HP Proliant Microserver Gen 7 Backplane Mini SAS SFF-8087 to SATA / SAS
> https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304564660421
> 
> The cabling is SAS, however the on-motherboard controller is not. That 
> can be fixed by adding a SAS controller. They are cheap (some below 
> £20!) and currently I'm searching recommendations.
> 
> The board end connector on the cable is "SFF-8087" and for me this looks 
> a candidate (from https://n40l.fandom.com/wiki/Raid)
> 
> HP Smart Array P212 ZM
> 
> I have a stack of 3.5" SAS drives acquired after completing buy-it-now 
> on ebay, and then finding my foot in my mouth - I actually needed 2.5"
> 
> So mine will be a box to totally backup my QNAP NAS, which did not amuse 
> me last week when after restarting it, it decided to unlink the home 
> directory for all authenticated users. This causing me to imagine the 
> worse for most of my profile held stuff. It didn't help, that I was 
> dealing with a disk failure and rebuilding the new drive at the same time.
> 

These are the two controllers I have:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=asr+7805&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_sop=15&rt=nc&LH_PrefLoc=1