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can you use SAS drives on sata motherboards

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10 minutes ago, Pc6777 said:

and you would hook a sas cable up to the pci card to the drive? how would you power it with an atx power supply?

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Here is the cable you want https://www.amazon.com/Connector-Creation-Internal-SFF-8087-connectors/dp/B013G4FEGG/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=sas+cable&qid=1611983523&sr=8-5

 

Plug one end to the card, and the other to the drives. It takes sata power too.

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I was wondering if i could use SAS drives or adapt them to work with normal motherboards, I have access to to lots of free used ones. 

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2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

If you want to use sas drive you need a sas hba or raid card. Something like this will work and is cheap https://www.ebay.com/itm/USED-W8J8X-SAS9210-8I-DELL-PERC-H200-SAS-6GB-S-PCIE-RAID-CONTROLLER-CARD-LP/184639013883?epid=2096397157&hash=item2afd57c3fb:g:O~AAAOSw1tRgE5xq

and you would hook a sas cable up to the pci card to the drive? how would you power it with an atx power supply?

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10 minutes ago, Pc6777 said:

and you would hook a sas cable up to the pci card to the drive? how would you power it with an atx power supply?

Yup

 

Here is the cable you want https://www.amazon.com/Connector-Creation-Internal-SFF-8087-connectors/dp/B013G4FEGG/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=sas+cable&qid=1611983523&sr=8-5

 

Plug one end to the card, and the other to the drives. It takes sata power too.

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