SAS to SATA

[prithivraj]

I have a Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA mother board. I am planning to by a Seagate 6TB Enterprise Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SAS 12Gb/s 128MB 3.5" ST6000NM0034. I need some support  to make it work. Thanks in advance.

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[C1intFunWood]

You're not going to get the full performance using a SAS drive on a SATA drive. You can probably just sell the drive and buy a regular SATA drive with the same capacity and still pocket some money as SAS drives sell quite a bit even used. If you don't want to go that route, try this: https://www.amazon.ca/StarTech-18-Inch-Cable-Power-SAS729PW18/dp/B000V72AQ4?tag=georiot-ca-default-20&ascsubtag=tomshardware-4797678580302317288-20

[C1intFunWood]

However, your motherboard's drive controller probably doesn't support the SAS protocol. A RAID card would probably be your only option if you were to use the SAS drive.

[scottyseng]

You need a SAS RAID or HBA card if you want to access SAS drives (I doubt a consumer motherboard would have SAS support). I would sell it and get a normal SATA drive as mentioned above.

[prithivraj]

Currently I don't need SAS speeds. SATA normally does 6Gb/s.  I am confused whether it will work at normal SATA speeds. I will be planning to upgrade to SAS supported motherboards in future,

[prithivraj]

3 hours ago, C1intFunWood said:

However, your motherboard's drive controller probably doesn't support the SAS protocol. A RAID card would probably be your only option if you were to use the SAS drive.

Thanks for the reply

[scottyseng]

6 hours ago, prithivraj said:

Currently I don't need SAS speeds. SATA normally does 6Gb/s.  I am confused whether it will work at normal SATA speeds. I will be planning to upgrade to SAS supported motherboards in future,

SAS 12 Gb/s is downward compatible to 6Gb/s, but your main issue here is that you need a SAS supporting motherboard or RAID / HBA card.