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!

  • @[email protected]OP
    1•9 months ago

    The link in Sanctus post says its SAS to SATA but the other way around doesn’t work for cheap converters 😞

    • y0din
      2•9 months ago

      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)

      • @[email protected]OP
        1•9 months ago

        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).

        • y0din
          3•9 months ago

          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

          • @[email protected]OP
            1•9 months ago

            Thank you!

            Mine is suspiciously looking like yours 😁 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 € to see 😁

            • @[email protected]
              2•9 months ago

              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)

            • y0din
              1•9 months ago

              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