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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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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The search brings up these scary words. It says you are 100% fucked.

At the same time, I see those cheap ass converters on Amazon >.> I have never tried one.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can adapt SATA drives to an SAS controller, but you cannot adapt SAS drives to a SATA controller.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm gonna put my chips on the side of "these 8 dollar converters won't work"

But maybe OP is brave idk

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Ya maybe I'll sit this one out 😁

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! Yeah looks like it's only the other way around.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Just sell it on or cancel.