Using a SAS HDD on a desktop.

[bejamartins]

Hey everyone.

 

I bought a 3TB 7200 rpm Seagate hard drive on Amazon for a great price. It was listed as a SATA drive but it is in fact SAS when it arrived, but I know very little of it.

 

If I buy a RAID controller in IT mode and plug in a PCIe on my desktop motherboard will it work? Do I need to do any configuration? Or do I need something else?

 

Thank you for any help.

[Levent]

It should work but I would honestly return the disk instead. Adding a PCIE card to your system can be detrimental to performance of other components like graphics card.

[bejamartins]

2 hours ago, Levent said:

It should work but I would honestly return the disk instead. Adding a PCIE card to your system can be detrimental to performance of other components like graphics card.

I ended up following your advice and submit a return request. The lower price was killing me but the hassle seems not worth it.

[LIGISTX]

5 minutes ago, bejamartins said:

I ended up following your advice and submit a return request. The lower price was killing me but the hassle seems not worth it.

A used SAS card will be 30-40 bucks... a 3 TB brand new is not much more then that. It just isn't worth the hassle to deal with all of that, nor the extra cost, just to try and use an excessively cheap harddrive. 

 

46 bucks and you can have a brand new 3 TB drive, its only 5400 RPM but that is likely fine:

 

https://www.amazon.com/WD-Blue-3TB-Hard-Drive/dp/B013HNYV42/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=3tb+hard+drive&qid=1680657903&redirectFromSmile=1&sr=8-5

[Block0]

On 4/4/2023 at 3:53 PM, Levent said:

It should work but I would honestly return the disk instead. Adding a PCIE card to your system can be detrimental to performance of other components like graphics card.

not if you have an hedt platform >:)