Just return these drives or get a SAS Pcie card?

[jsnotlout1]

I missed one word in the listing when I was buying hard drives for a storage server, and failed to see these drives were SAS. Should I get a cheap adapter or give up and return them? Apparently, SAS drives are loud and don't function as well. But these are 12gb/s so I don't see how that would be worse than a SATA drive.

 

Is it worth all the trouble or no?

[strange13930]

7 minutes ago, jsnotlout1 said:

I missed one word in the listing when I was buying hard drives for a storage server, and failed to see these drives were SAS. Should I get a cheap adapter or give up and return them? Apparently, SAS drives are loud and don't function as well. But these are 12gb/s so I don't see how that would be worse than a SATA drive.

 

Is it worth all the trouble or no?

I'd return them and get the right kind instead of having to deal with adapters.

[Electronics Wizardy]

What drives and what server?

 

Yea there 12gbit, but that won't make them any faster than a 6gbit sata drive as your limited by the HDD, not the bus.

[jsnotlout1]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

What drives and what server?

 

Yea there 12gbit, but that won't make them any faster than a 6gbit sata drive as your limited by the HDD, not the bus.

8TB HGST datacenter drives, A random dell office PC (XPX 8500) running ubuntu server.

[Agall]

1 minute ago, jsnotlout1 said:

8TB HGST datacenter drives, A random dell office PC (XPX 8500) running ubuntu server.

I'd just get the right drives over trying to get a SAS PCIe card to work on linux.

[Electronics Wizardy]

8 minutes ago, jsnotlout1 said:

8TB HGST datacenter drives, A random dell office PC (XPX 8500) running ubuntu server.

How much more would it cost to get SATA drives, probably easier to just get SATA drives.

[Levent]

Sas HBAs are dime a dozen. Support for LSI stuff is pretty solid across all GNU oses. If noise isn’t a deal breaker, just get a HBA. 
 

I’m personally looking to get ex data center SAS drives as well. I already have HBAs.

[jsnotlout1]

52 minutes ago, Levent said:

Sas HBAs are dime a dozen. Support for LSI stuff is pretty solid across all GNU oses. If noise isn’t a deal breaker, just get a HBA. 
 

I’m personally looking to get ex data center SAS drives as well. I already have HBAs.

I mean, the server is right out in the open in a shared room, i might get some flak for that, plus, i feel like the whole headache isnt worth it

[Blue4130]

4 hours ago, jsnotlout1 said:

Apparently, SAS drives are loud and don't function as well.

What? No. They are exactly the same (assuming same product category) just with a diferent interface.