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1 hour ago, Erxas said:

Is there a PCIE card that could read those drivers?

Yes, they're called HBAs. I recommend looking at LSI models, such as the 9207-8i or 9300-8i. You'll need to get a set of SAS cables that match both the port on the HBA and the ports on the drives.

 

1 hour ago, Erxas said:

i bought a simple SAS to Sata adapter that doesn't work...now im totally lost...

SAS cards can interact with SATA drives, but SATA hosts can't talk to SAS drives unfortunately.

 

29 minutes ago, Erxas said:

As im looking for solutions, i think, best idea would be to just buy U.2 to PCIE card and 4 Sas to U.2 cables.

U.2 is a PCIe/NVMe interface that happens to share a connector style with SAS (this happens a lot with high-speed signals as no one wants to re-engineer another interface). This won't work.

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Hi all,

 

As im familiar with PC hardware...etc, a server hardware is total enigma to me.

my original plan was to convert my test machine 'hp prodesk 400 g3 SSF' to be me my first NAS.

i got 550W 80 Gold PSU, a different PC case to fit all my hardware, bought General PCIE to 4 Sata ports card and 4 x 4TB HDD + 256GB ssd for boot.

so far, everything looks good.

it turns out those 4 HDD are SAS instead of SATA... i never seen SAS connector before...

i bought a simple SAS to Sata adapter that doesn't work...now im totally lost...

 

Is there a PCIE card that could read those drivers? hopefully there is like a split cable that splits from HDD to PCIE card/PSU Sata

as this is my first NAS, im on a low budget, looking for a solution in aliexpress

specs:
I5 6400/ 16gb ddr4/256FB ssd
Desktop PSU 550W
4 Seagate ST 4000NM0023

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As im looking for solutions, i think, best idea would be to just buy U.2 to PCIE card and 4 Sas to U.2 cables.
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1 hour ago, Erxas said:

Is there a PCIE card that could read those drivers?

Yes, they're called HBAs. I recommend looking at LSI models, such as the 9207-8i or 9300-8i. You'll need to get a set of SAS cables that match both the port on the HBA and the ports on the drives.

 

1 hour ago, Erxas said:

i bought a simple SAS to Sata adapter that doesn't work...now im totally lost...

SAS cards can interact with SATA drives, but SATA hosts can't talk to SAS drives unfortunately.

 

29 minutes ago, Erxas said:

As im looking for solutions, i think, best idea would be to just buy U.2 to PCIE card and 4 Sas to U.2 cables.

U.2 is a PCIe/NVMe interface that happens to share a connector style with SAS (this happens a lot with high-speed signals as no one wants to re-engineer another interface). This won't work.

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                       ┌─────────────── Office/Rack ───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
Google Fiber Webpass ── Cloud Gateway Max ══╦═ Pro XG 8 ══╦═ Flex 2.5-8 ══╦═ Doven Wolf
                      La Vie en Rose (DNS) ═╬═ Narrative  ╠═ Veda-NAS     ╠═ La Vie en Rose (vmbr)
                                Veda (DNS) ─┘             ╠═ Veda (vmbr)  ├─ Ptolemy (vmbr)
╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╩═ Ptolemy-NAS  ├─ Veda (Mgmt)
║   ┌ Closet ┐      ┌───────── Bedroom ─────────┐                         └─ Veda (IPMI)
╚═══ Flex XG ══╦╤═══ Flex XG ══╤╦═ Byarlant
       (PoE)   ║│              │╠═ Narrative 
Kitchen Jack ══╣└─ Dual PoE ┐  │╚═ Jesta Cannon*
   (Testing)   ║┌─ Injector ┘  └── Work Laptop
     Bedroom ══╝│        ┌─────── Media Center ────────────────────────────┐
     Jack #2    └──────── Switch 8 ────────────┬─ nanoHD Access Point (PoE)
Notes:                                         ├─ Sony PlayStation 4 
─── is Gigabit / ═══ is Multi-Gigabit          ├─ Pioneer VSX-S520
* = cable passed from Bedroom to Media Center  └─ Sony XR65A80K (Google TV)
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