I’ve come to the conclusion that snatching up some old datacenter castoff drives would do me some good, obviously i’ll need me a card and a breakout cable. I really wanna just be able to hook one up for as cheap as possible I come here to make sure I get things that will actually work since I have little enterprise experience. Who would like to help me with that? Basically I want links.
A SAS drive will in 99% of all times work like any other (from a user perspective) drive so what are you trying to acheive?
I can get um for nothing or next to nothing, good for media and whatever unimportant whatnot I want on a drive
You grab a SAS controller, LSI-based ones have good support overall and there’s a lot of documentation available. You want at least SAS2008 or better based ones however the 2X08-series are gettting very old you may run into compatibility issue with “newer” hardware (motherboards).
Here’s a good and properly more or less complete list of cards utilizing LSI controllers:
LSI RAID Controller and HBA Complete Listing Plus OEM Models | ServeTheHome Forums and there are fakes for at least the SAS2XXX series around so you might want to be a bit cautious. On top of that you need cabling, you’ll probably realize that unless these drives are giant and in good condition you’re likely better off getting a decent SATA drive instead.
Before investing in enterprise hard drives, try this link:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=choice_dp_b?keywords=hearing%20protection
Otherwise the drives should be fine for most use cases.
I thank you for the additional information but I will add that the best reason to do anything at all is because you want to. I will do this because it’s a thing I want to do, there is no need for any kinda additional discouragement as it will be ignored. In short don’t gimmi no sass I want some SAS.
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