Comment on What type of connector is this ?
stickmanmeyhem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s a 2.5” SAS drive. They’re usually used in servers and typically spin a lot faster than consumer SATA drives. You won’t be able to use it in your PC unless you buy an HBA card and some adapters.
RAM@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
thank you :))
do you know why SAS HBAs are so expensive ? 🥲 is it possible to get a cheap one ?
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I got a used 8 port card from ebay for about $20 a few years ago. I had to flash different firmware to it using a DOS boot disk to disable raid though. It’s an obsolete card, but it’s been working fine in my NAS.