Converting sas to sata

[Phantom_c4k]

I recently found a great deal on eBay for some sas drives, and I know sas to sata converters exist, but I was wondering if the sas drives would work with a sata interface if I just cut out the piece of plastic in between the power and data pins or is their some software or electrical difference between the two that would cause this not to work?

[PineyCreek]

There are signaling/voltage differences from my understanding.  SATA will work with a SAS controller usually, SAS drives will not work with SATA controllers.

Here's a couple posts on them:

 

https://superuser.com/questions/191681/can-sas-drives-work-on-a-sata-motherboard/191683

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=76013

 

That being said, you can probably pick up an outdated LSI SAS controller relatively cheap, like on ebay.