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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    2 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)

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      2 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).

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        2 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

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          2 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 😁