Halomatt96

I have been moving pieces from a Dell Poweredge 2950 into my computer. Specifically the raid controller, backplane, and hard drives. Upon setting them all up in my pc and hooking up two 4 pin connectors and one 6 pin connector into the 20 pin connector, nothing occurred. So i removed all but one 4 pin connector. Then i blew up the backplane and it set on fire. I am ordering a new one now. Anyway, the 20 pin connected the backplane to the motherboard while it was in the server. Upon putting it in my pc i connected the various cables to backplane from the motherboard. That is probably why i blew up. Oh well. Any ideas how to hook it up with out it blowing up. I would connect it to the 20 pin connector on my motherboard, but i need that for the processor. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Matt

Kprice789, thank you for this tip. Upon further research it turns out these drives are SATA compatible. I do not know the extent, or if they will work in RAID, but this advice was helpful! Thanks again [NOTE TO OTHER PEOPLE VIEWING THIS THREAD]: This is helpful but not the solution....any answers to my other questions would still be appreciated.

I have no space nor ports to plug these drives into the mother board with. I can get adapters for SATA to SAS but they are not compatible with the existing raid controller.

This is what i am attempting, which is a PCI to RAID controller for the SCSI drives. This attaches to the board which the drives mount on.

Thank you, and by the way: The raid card i refer to in this topic is the server grade raid card which came with the server i dissembled to get these HDDs.

[NOTICE] Pictures of each step are in this link: http://imgur.com/a/elpvH Hello everyone, I have acquired a Dell PowerEdge 2950. Image Here: http://content.hwigroup.net/images/products/xl/002294/2/dell_poweredge_2950.jpg I was originally planning on building a gaming computer out of this, by adding parts, but upon the realization it couldn't be done i changed my plan. I decided on building a gaming PC with the valuable parts remaining. I Decided that the most valuable pieces of this were the HDDs. There 6 are 15,000 RPM HDDs(YES, FIFTEEN THOUSAND RPM). I plan on attempting to add the HDDs in raid(They were in Raid in the server) to this motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131874 The problem is that the HDDs are not SATA, they are SAS (Serial Attached SCSI). This motherboard only has SATA raid, so I decided to remove the SAS raid card from the Server. So, I decided i could remove the board on which the SAS drives mount. (In the server, they were hot swap-able) I also removed the SAS RAID controller. I figure that I will need a mother board where I can more than one 24 pin connectors. The 20 pin connector on the board which the drives will mount to will connect to my motherboard. The two other cables attach to the RAID controller. I then planned on attaching the HDDs to the board. I would also attach the board to the motherboard. I was just wondering if my plan was at all possible. If you have any suggestions of alternate motherboards (They must still be able to be fully functional motherboards for gaming) that would help. Or a way of having multiple 24 pin connector on this motherboard.. Also any advice on the PCI 8x vs PCI 16x connector would be nice. Would either of those work with my current motherboard, or any other you can find? I'm not sure if that is the size or the type or PCI. Over all would this even work at all? Would having an existing SATA raid controller built in on the motherboard cause any problems? Does my setup work? Will the SAS RAID controller work outside of its server? Could I get power from the power supply and not the motherboard with the 20 pin connector? Thanks in Advance, Matt