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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those adapters only work for plugging SATA drives into SAS controllers. You can't use an adapter to plug a SAS drive into a SATA port

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well sometimes it can, it seems.

I'll try to be back and tell :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, they can't. You need a SAS controller for a SAS drive, there is no way around it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Check out y0dins post below, there are SAS drives with SATA compatibility it seems.