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

From SH <i.love@spam.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc, alt.comp.misc, england.comp.misc, uk.comp.homebuilt, uk.comp.misc
Subject Anyone able to advise on SAS hard discs and SAS controllers in a domestic home PC?
Date 2022-08-17 10:24 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <tdic5a$dm1a$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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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.

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Anyone able to advise on SAS hard discs and SAS controllers in a domestic home PC? SH <i.love@spam.com> - 2022-08-17 10:24 +0100
  Re: Anyone able to advise on SAS hard discs and SAS controllers in a domestic home PC? GB <NOTsomeone@microsoft.invalid> - 2022-08-17 10:59 +0100
    Re: Anyone able to advise on SAS hard discs and SAS controllers in a domestic home PC? SH <i.love@spam.com> - 2022-08-17 13:48 +0100
  Re: Anyone able to advise on SAS hard discs and SAS controllers in a domestic home PC? Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2022-08-17 15:50 +0100
    Re: Anyone able to advise on SAS hard discs and SAS controllers in a domestic home PC? SH <i.love@spam.com> - 2022-08-17 17:10 +0100
  Re: Anyone able to advise on SAS hard discs and SAS controllers in a domestic home PC? Raj Kundra <raj@kundracomputers.co.uk> - 2022-08-17 22:26 +0100

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