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Any recommendations for a super cheap SAS controller? by JahnDough1 in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

[-] JahnDough1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

uneducated fumble on my part :sobs:

Any recommendations for a super cheap SAS controller? by JahnDough1 in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

[-] JahnDough1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Oh my god i should have checked ebay, they are really cheap and have SATA drives, even cheaper than the $40 for the 2x 4tb drives. I got two because me and my partner were gonna use them for our steam libraries

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Any recommendations for a super cheap SAS controller? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by JahnDough1@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I bought some hard drives from FB marketplace, and the post not saying they were SAS drives or even showing that much they had the Dell caddys on them, went and drove 30 minutes to buy them. 2x 4 TB for $40, i had my head up my butt salivating at the deal so I didn't look any closer

I realized they were SAS and i was like "Oh, i could just buy an adapter and it'll be fine"

It was not fine. I learned you can use SATA drives in a SAS back-plane but not reversed. So I decided to just put it into my homelab but that doesnt support SAS either.

Any advice? Thank you very much!