8x 8GB SAS 12 GB/s HDDs

Hardware HDD's & SSD's
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I have the opportunity to purchase 8x 8GB SAS 12GB/s HDDs but i am having trouble connecting them to my PC

I have asked some friends to help me out checking first if the drive actually work, one friend has a sas 3GB's server but the drives would not work.

I bought this http://www.raidsonic.de/products/internal_cases/backplanes/index_en.php?we_objectID=1150
the drive lights showed the HDD's were on, but when I connected the SATA Cables to my motherboard the drives would not show up (The motherboard is SATA )

I am building a server at the moment but am having memory issues and is not working yet (Asus tech support takes 2 days to reply to an email)

I need to know what hardware I need to check if these drives are working and once I know that I can buy them and workout how I am going to get them in a RAID array later, please help

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The the motherboard have support for the sas protocol?
Sas controllers will typically support sata drives, but sata controllers don't support sas drives.

So you probably want to get yourself a sas hba

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Yes I was thinking of getting the ASUS Pike II raid card, this is SAS 12GB 's if the Pike card and the HDD's are working will the drives show up 100% ?

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Eight 8GB drives?
A total of 64GB?
8GB 12GB/s SAS drives? I didn't know they made them that small.

Frankly, this is a waste of money on all fronts. By the time you are done with everything, you could buy a small PCIe SSD that'd run rings around those SAS drives. Plus enterprise stuff can be a real pain in the ass.

I'd recommend not doing it.

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Nope, the mobo won't see them as it is only doing sata.

Occasionally you may need to swap sas ports to get the drives to show up. I cave that issue Shan install and adding new drives.

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yes 8 X 8GB SAS Drives total of 64GB

I don't see why I would want a pcie ssd to boot linux I have a 128GB SATA SSD, doing this for storage and not speed,

I want storage lots of it and I can get these drives pretty cheap of my buddy, I have the following server

Intel Xeon E5-2680 V2 2.8GHz Ten-Core
ASUS Z9PA-U8 Workstation Motherboard
16GB DDR3 EEC RAM
128GB Sandisk SSD SATA
Linux Mint 18.1

Correct me if I am wrong all i need is an SAS 12GB/s Controller card to make these drives into a 32TB RAID 1 Array, I don't care about speed or performance so I don't need a SSD Cache or anything fancy like that

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DAMM Sorry 8 x 8TB for a total of 64TB (Terra Byte)

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Sorry for the confusion guys my Dyslexia is playing up today

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OK Terrabytes sounds more reasonable. Wow.

and you'll need 2 of these unless you have this sort of stuff