Mistakenly bought a SAS Drive (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Valmond@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Hello,

Bought a spare super cheap used 3TB drive a year ago, and just figured out it's not a SATA but a SAS drive.

How fucked am I? What can I do more than using it as a paperweight?

Cheers!

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[-] y0din@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

you can, if you read my edited post, as long as the SATA logo is present on the label of the sas drive

as mentioned in the description of the product

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thank you!

Mine is suspiciously looking like yours 😁 but Dell, and without the sticker...

Is it just a Dell rebranded Seagate? I mean Dell doesn't make drives right? And the serial takes me right to segate drives who are compatible s-ata.

Guess I'll gamble a couple of € to see 😁

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Dell drives are rebranded Seagates, however the firmware is slightly modified so the bios recognizes it as a Dell branded drive. Openmanage will throw an error if you use a different drive (though aside from that everything will work fine)

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks! Crossing my fingers 😁

[-] y0din@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No worries, however I cannot see the SATA marking on yours, just the SAS, or perhaps I am blind, changed contact model today..but please double check before ordering.

And yes, Dell does not manufacture hard drives, so it's almost 100% a OEM rebranding.

if however, it is this drive it should support SATA

https://www.minitool.com/backup-tips/sas-hard-drive.html?amp

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

I'll get the converter, I'll let you know how it pans out, and a huge thank you!!

[-] y0din@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

no worries! 🙂

crossing my fingers for you while we wait 😄

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Ha ha thanks!

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