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!
If high performance isn’t a necessity, unflashed Dell PERC H310s make good HBAs once you flash them to IT mode via this script. I run one and so far no issues at all. They’re like 20ish bucks unflashed on ebay if I remember correctly.