Sas pcie card and cables?

[crazyfrog]

I need a pcie adapter and cables to get this working with my motherboard. Can someone recommend a set? 
 

I have 6 drives consisting of seagate exos, WD enterprise and dell branded constellation

[digitalscream]

Need more information. Do you have a backplane in the case, or do you have a hot swap caddy, or are you just dealing with internal drives?

 

If it's the latter, then you'll probably want just any IT mode SAS HBA that has "8i" in the name (ie 8 internal ports, or two physical ports).

 

If it's a 6G card (which is probably the most economical), then you'll need two SFF-8087 to SFF8482 cables - you can get them with molex or SATA power connectors, just pick the ones that you have the available power connectors for.

 

If it's a 12G card, you'll want SFF-8643 to SFF-8482 cables.

[Windows7ge]

LSI 9207-8i and SFF-8087 to SFF-8482 breakout cable.

 

You sure those are SAS drives? I own SATA Seatagte Exos and WD Enterprise drives but perhaps they have SAS versions under the same name...

[Crunchy Dragon]

47 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

LSI 9207-8i and SFF-8087 to SFF-8482 breakout cable.

 

You sure those are SAS drives? I own SATA Seatagte Exos and WD Enterprise drives but perhaps they have SAS versions under the same name...

I'm no expert, but I have seen SAS to 4x SATA cables used with HBAs like this in the past, maybe that's what OP is intending to do.

[Windows7ge]

3 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I'm no expert, but I have seen SAS to 4x SATA cables used with HBAs like this in the past, maybe that's what OP is intending to do.

Perhaps. 6 SATA ports is kind of in the upper range of what comes on most consumer motherboards. Maybe it's just a case of needs more ports but I guess we'll just have to wait for OP to clarify.

[digitalscream]

8 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

LSI 9207-8i and SFF-8087 to SFF-8482 breakout cable.

 

You sure those are SAS drives? I own SATA Seatagte Exos and WD Enterprise drives but perhaps they have SAS versions under the same name...

Doesn't really matter, SAS cards can handle SATA drives.

[Windows7ge]

5 hours ago, digitalscream said:

Doesn't really matter, SAS cards can handle SATA drives.

I'm aware. Point being if he doesn't actually need a HBA but thinks he does.

 

These are the types of questions you have to ask yourself when helping people on the forum. Don't face value let people waste money if it turns out they don't need to. He didn't say he needs more ports but that's why we're waiting for clarification.

[crazyfrog]

On 9/18/2023 at 11:15 PM, digitalscream said:

Need more information. Do you have a backplane in the case, or do you have a hot swap caddy, or are you just dealing with internal drives?

 

If it's the latter, then you'll probably want just any IT mode SAS HBA that has "8i" in the name (ie 8 internal ports, or two physical ports).

 

If it's a 6G card (which is probably the most economical), then you'll need two SFF-8087 to SFF8482 cables - you can get them with molex or SATA power connectors, just pick the ones that you have the available power connectors for.

 

If it's a 12G card, you'll want SFF-8643 to SFF-8482 cables.

It was going to be internal drives, such a ripoff to try and get anything with caddies. 
 

I had some 6g and 12g drives though I just assumed they’re cross compatible bug I’m returning them all and reordered used 8tb sata drives. The used 8tb drives are double capacity, low hours and will run without special hardware.

 

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