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

On 17/08/2022 10:24, SH wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a domestic personal PC in a Tower case that has two Adaptec 
> 7805T controllers. These controllers can work with either SATA or SAS 
> drives.
>
> I currently use SATA drives on the Adaptec 7805 cards and this is 
> being used as a NAS.
>
> I've seen a cheap deal for some SAS drives that are bigger in capacity 
> and faster than the current SATA drives
>
> I understand that SATA drives have 2 seperate connectors for power and 
> data whereas on SAS drives they are one physical connector that 
> carries both power and data.
>
> Now the Adaptec cards clearly only have data connecotrs. Typically SAS 
> drives are used with a SAS backplane in enterprise grade servers.
>
> So can I get away with SAS breakout cables like these in order to use 
> my exisiting case and Adaptec 7805 cards with SAS drives or am I 
> overlooking something?
>
> Sometrhing like this:
>
> https://www.newegg.com/3ware-cbl-sas8087ocf-06m/p/N82E16816116091
>
> (there are reports of SAS drives not being recognised consistently 
> where an alternative method is used to a SAS backplane)
>
> Otherwise I will have to invest in a enterprise grade server case to 
> support SAS drives properly.
>
I do not if this helps, I strip SAS controllors from dell workstations 
and sell them on E bay.

This is what with 12GB/s speed ones look like and have cables for, hope 
it helps.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304567582990