SCSI Server Parts in Custom PC [HELP PLEASE]

[Halomatt96]

[NOTICE] Pictures of each step are in this link:
http://imgur.com/a/elpvH
 
Hello everyone, I have acquired a Dell PowerEdge 2950.  Image Here:
 
http://content.hwigroup.net/images/products/xl/002294/2/dell_poweredge_2950.jpg
 
I was originally planning on building a gaming computer out of this, by adding parts, but upon the realization it couldn't be done i changed my plan.  I decided on building a gaming PC with the valuable parts remaining. I Decided that the most valuable pieces of this were the HDDs.  There 6 are 15,000 RPM HDDs(YES, FIFTEEN THOUSAND RPM).  I plan on attempting to add the HDDs in raid(They were in Raid in the server) to this motherboard:
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131874
 
The problem is that the HDDs are not SATA, they are SAS (Serial Attached SCSI).
This motherboard only has SATA raid, so I decided to remove the SAS raid card from the Server.
 
 
So, I decided i could remove the board on which the SAS drives mount.  (In the server, they were hot swap-able) I also removed the SAS RAID controller.  I figure that I will need a mother board where I can more than one 24 pin connectors.  The 20 pin connector on the board which the drives will mount to will connect to my motherboard.  The two other cables attach to the RAID controller.  I then planned on attaching the HDDs to the board.  I would also attach the board to the motherboard.

 

I was just wondering if my plan was at all possible.  If you have any suggestions of alternate motherboards (They must still be able to be fully functional motherboards for gaming) that would help.  Or a way of having multiple 24 pin connector on this motherboard..  Also any advice on the PCI 8x vs PCI 16x connector would be nice.  Would either of those work with my current motherboard, or any other you can find?  I'm not sure if that is the size or the type or PCI.  Over all would this even work at all?  Would having an existing SATA raid controller built in on the motherboard cause any problems?  Does my setup work?  Will the SAS RAID controller work outside of its server? Could I get power from the power supply and not the motherboard with the 20 pin connector?

 

Thanks in Advance,

 

Matt

[Halomatt96]

Thank you, and by the way: The raid card i refer to in this topic is the server grade raid card which came with the server i dissembled to get these HDDs. 

[dylandylandylan]

It would be a lot easier to get a PCI -> SCSI adapter card, if the 2950 is anything like the 2850, those adapters are massive, and the drivers were a pain to find because the server was so old. 

I also don't think conventional consumer power supplies will work, my 2850 has no external connectors, it just attaches straight to the motherboard and power is delivered that way. 

[Halomatt96]

This is what i am attempting, which is a PCI to RAID controller for the SCSI drives.  This attaches to the board which the drives mount on.

[kprice789]

Have you tried plugging in all the drives straight into the motherboard? These SAS drives should be compatible with SATA controllers. If you are not able to get this to work, there might be a custom dell firmware flashed on these drives. You would have to re-flash them back to original Seagate firmware.

[Halomatt96]

I have no space nor ports to plug these drives into the mother board with.  I can get adapters for SATA to SAS but they are not compatible with the existing raid controller.

[Halomatt96]

Kprice789, thank you for this tip.  Upon further research it turns out these drives are SATA compatible.  I do not know the extent, or if they will work in RAID, but this advice was helpful!

 

Thanks again

 

[NOTE TO OTHER PEOPLE VIEWING THIS THREAD]: This is helpful but not the solution....any answers to my other questions would still be appreciated. 

[dylandylandylan]

This is what i am attempting, which is a PCI to RAID controller for the SCSI drives.  This attaches to the board which the drives mount on.

 

Aren't the raid controllers built for the servers? is the 2950 a rack mount server or a workstation? 

It's just that my raid controller is huge, and it spans the top of my rackmount server, so I don't know how you'd mount that in a conventional case without a lot of modding.