Hard Drive Help - Please Hurry!

[Vertikull]

Please help. I bought a Hard drive but right in between the sata data and sata power input plug there is a plastic tab the basically makes the data and power input one plug. Is there any adapter out there? I need this pretty quick.

[MrDrWho13]

Just now, Vertikull said:

Please help. I bought a Hard drive but right in between the sata data and sata power input plug there is a plastic tab the basically makes the data and power input one plug. Is there any adapter out there? I need this pretty quick.

Picture? Can't you just plug stuff in as normal?

[minibois]

Can't you take out/off that tab? I don't fully get what you're saying, a picture, as asked before, will help out a ton.

Or a model number of the HDD.

[Lurick]

You bought a SAS drive. There are definitely SAS to SATA adapters out there, just search around.

 

[manikyath]

my first question is how you could have accidentially bought a SAS drive.

[Vertikull]

9 minutes ago, Lurick said:

You bought a SAS drive. There are definitely SAS to SATA adapters out there, just search around.

 

OMG. Thanks you so much. 

[Vertikull]

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

my first question is how you could have accidentially bought a SAS drive.

Hard to call myself a computer nerd after this but I actually have never heard of a SAS drive before.

[Crunchy Dragon]

7 minutes ago, Vertikull said:

Hard to call myself a computer nerd after this but I actually have never heard of a SAS drive before.

You can still call yourself a computer nerd, until now I was only ever vaguely aware of the fact that SAS existed.

[oskarha]

28 minutes ago, Lurick said:

You bought a SAS drive. There are definitely SAS to SATA adapters out there, just search around.

 

SAS controllers work with SATA drives, but not the other way around, SAS drives do not work with SATA controllers.

What OP needs to use his drive is a SAS controller (SAS is server grade, hence drives and controllers are expensive).

I would say that OPs best option is to return his SAS drive and get a SATA drive instead.

[Drak3]

23 minutes ago, manikyath said:

my first question is how you could have accidentially bought a SAS drive.

Very carefully...

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, oskarha said:

SAS controllers work with SATA drives, but not the other way around, SAS drives do not work with SATA controllers.

What OP needs to use his drive is a SAS controller (SAS is server grade, hence drives and controllers are expensive).

I would say that OPs best option is to return his SAS drive and get a SATA drive instead.

Good catch, I forgot about the controller part.

[oskarha]

Just now, Lurick said:

Good catch, I forgot about the controller part.

Yup, adapters exist, but they don't work (with inappropriate controllers and drives that is, some boards (eg. P6T Deluxe) actually have SAS controllers with SATA plugs).

I actually own two "SAS" to SATA adapters, I use them with my testbench so that I can quickly hot swap drives (one plug for both power and data is pretty handy).