How to use a SAS drive as an external hard disk?
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I am not a server guy. I have few external hard disks lying around. Googling around I found those are SAS drives. I want to convert it into an external hard drive for personal use (I'm planning to connect it to the router that has USB 3.0 ). How to connect these drives to the router through USB or ethernet? Any help would be welcome. The hard disk is in the image.
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I am not a server guy. I have few external hard disks lying around. Googling around I found those are SAS drives. I want to convert it into an external hard drive for personal use (I'm planning to connect it to the router that has USB 3.0 ). How to connect these drives to the router through USB or ethernet? Any help would be welcome. The hard disk is in the image.
hard-drive usb external-hard-drive sas
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serverfault.com/questions/376780/… related and worth a read. Basically you can't.
– Journeyman Geek♦
Sep 30 '17 at 1:07
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Give it to a computer recycling place and ask for a used SATA drive or USB External Drive in return. It can't be that big of a drive if it is just laying around and SAS. I'm guessing 300 GB or less. A SATA of comparable size will be simpler and cost next to nothing. As @JourneymanGeek mentioned, it is near impossible to do what you want without a full on workstation used to provide an external interface or some rube Goldberg mechanism.
– Damon
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I am not a server guy. I have few external hard disks lying around. Googling around I found those are SAS drives. I want to convert it into an external hard drive for personal use (I'm planning to connect it to the router that has USB 3.0 ). How to connect these drives to the router through USB or ethernet? Any help would be welcome. The hard disk is in the image.
hard-drive usb external-hard-drive sas
edited Oct 2 at 4:41
Hennes
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asked Sep 30 '17 at 1:00
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I am not a server guy. I have few external hard disks lying around. Googling around I found those are SAS drives. I want to convert it into an external hard drive for personal use (I'm planning to connect it to the router that has USB 3.0 ). How to connect these drives to the router through USB or ethernet? Any help would be welcome. The hard disk is in the image.
hard-drive usb external-hard-drive sas
hard-drive usb external-hard-drive sas
edited Oct 2 at 4:41
Hennes
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asked Sep 30 '17 at 1:00
user1429322
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serverfault.com/questions/376780/… related and worth a read. Basically you can't.
– Journeyman Geek♦
Sep 30 '17 at 1:07
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Give it to a computer recycling place and ask for a used SATA drive or USB External Drive in return. It can't be that big of a drive if it is just laying around and SAS. I'm guessing 300 GB or less. A SATA of comparable size will be simpler and cost next to nothing. As @JourneymanGeek mentioned, it is near impossible to do what you want without a full on workstation used to provide an external interface or some rube Goldberg mechanism.
– Damon
Sep 30 '17 at 3:53
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serverfault.com/questions/376780/… related and worth a read. Basically you can't.
– Journeyman Geek♦
Sep 30 '17 at 1:07
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Give it to a computer recycling place and ask for a used SATA drive or USB External Drive in return. It can't be that big of a drive if it is just laying around and SAS. I'm guessing 300 GB or less. A SATA of comparable size will be simpler and cost next to nothing. As @JourneymanGeek mentioned, it is near impossible to do what you want without a full on workstation used to provide an external interface or some rube Goldberg mechanism.
– Damon
Sep 30 '17 at 3:53
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serverfault.com/questions/376780/… related and worth a read. Basically you can't.
– Journeyman Geek♦
Sep 30 '17 at 1:07
serverfault.com/questions/376780/… related and worth a read. Basically you can't.
– Journeyman Geek♦
Sep 30 '17 at 1:07
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1
Give it to a computer recycling place and ask for a used SATA drive or USB External Drive in return. It can't be that big of a drive if it is just laying around and SAS. I'm guessing 300 GB or less. A SATA of comparable size will be simpler and cost next to nothing. As @JourneymanGeek mentioned, it is near impossible to do what you want without a full on workstation used to provide an external interface or some rube Goldberg mechanism.
– Damon
Sep 30 '17 at 3:53
Give it to a computer recycling place and ask for a used SATA drive or USB External Drive in return. It can't be that big of a drive if it is just laying around and SAS. I'm guessing 300 GB or less. A SATA of comparable size will be simpler and cost next to nothing. As @JourneymanGeek mentioned, it is near impossible to do what you want without a full on workstation used to provide an external interface or some rube Goldberg mechanism.
– Damon
Sep 30 '17 at 3:53
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Startech make a $30 drive bay to turn anything into SATA, ie load SAS drive in the front and takes standard SATA out the back. That will speak fluent PC. Then you can do SATA to USB 3.0. Crazy I know, but very doable despite what all the muffins have said. No judgement on whether you really want to be doing this and for what cost.
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You can use pretty much any HDD enclosure, which you can find on sites such as Newegg or Amazon. The keyword to search for is "External Hard drive enclosure".
Just make sure to choose SAS interface rather than SATA.
Here is a sample: https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100008040%20600006291
answered Sep 30 '17 at 2:44
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Its also a different interface. You can plug in a sata drive into SAS connectors but not SAS drives into sata connectors
– Journeyman Geek♦
Sep 30 '17 at 2:51
You're right, thank you for pointing that out. I clarified my answer.
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 2:55
None of those enclosures support the requested USB or ethernet
– Damon
Sep 30 '17 at 3:48
Not ethernet of course, but certainly USB 3.0 .
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 4:16
That newegg search considers SATA & SAS equivalent... but it seems like they're not
– Xen2050
Oct 2 at 5:11
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Startech make a $30 drive bay to turn anything into SATA, ie load SAS drive in the front and takes standard SATA out the back. That will speak fluent PC. Then you can do SATA to USB 3.0. Crazy I know, but very doable despite what all the muffins have said. No judgement on whether you really want to be doing this and for what cost.
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Startech make a $30 drive bay to turn anything into SATA, ie load SAS drive in the front and takes standard SATA out the back. That will speak fluent PC. Then you can do SATA to USB 3.0. Crazy I know, but very doable despite what all the muffins have said. No judgement on whether you really want to be doing this and for what cost.
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Startech make a $30 drive bay to turn anything into SATA, ie load SAS drive in the front and takes standard SATA out the back. That will speak fluent PC. Then you can do SATA to USB 3.0. Crazy I know, but very doable despite what all the muffins have said. No judgement on whether you really want to be doing this and for what cost.
answered Jun 12 at 6:09
DrewII
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Startech make a $30 drive bay to turn anything into SATA, ie load SAS drive in the front and takes standard SATA out the back. That will speak fluent PC. Then you can do SATA to USB 3.0. Crazy I know, but very doable despite what all the muffins have said. No judgement on whether you really want to be doing this and for what cost.
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You can use pretty much any HDD enclosure, which you can find on sites such as Newegg or Amazon. The keyword to search for is "External Hard drive enclosure".
Just make sure to choose SAS interface rather than SATA.
Here is a sample: https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100008040%20600006291
answered Sep 30 '17 at 2:44
Godryc
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Its also a different interface. You can plug in a sata drive into SAS connectors but not SAS drives into sata connectors
– Journeyman Geek♦
Sep 30 '17 at 2:51
You're right, thank you for pointing that out. I clarified my answer.
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 2:55
None of those enclosures support the requested USB or ethernet
– Damon
Sep 30 '17 at 3:48
Not ethernet of course, but certainly USB 3.0 .
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 4:16
That newegg search considers SATA & SAS equivalent... but it seems like they're not
– Xen2050
Oct 2 at 5:11
add a comment |
up vote
-2
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You can use pretty much any HDD enclosure, which you can find on sites such as Newegg or Amazon. The keyword to search for is "External Hard drive enclosure".
Just make sure to choose SAS interface rather than SATA.
Here is a sample: https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100008040%20600006291
answered Sep 30 '17 at 2:44
Godryc
14
Its also a different interface. You can plug in a sata drive into SAS connectors but not SAS drives into sata connectors
– Journeyman Geek♦
Sep 30 '17 at 2:51
You're right, thank you for pointing that out. I clarified my answer.
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 2:55
None of those enclosures support the requested USB or ethernet
– Damon
Sep 30 '17 at 3:48
Not ethernet of course, but certainly USB 3.0 .
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 4:16
That newegg search considers SATA & SAS equivalent... but it seems like they're not
– Xen2050
Oct 2 at 5:11
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You can use pretty much any HDD enclosure, which you can find on sites such as Newegg or Amazon. The keyword to search for is "External Hard drive enclosure".
Just make sure to choose SAS interface rather than SATA.
Here is a sample: https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100008040%20600006291
answered Sep 30 '17 at 2:44
Godryc
14
You can use pretty much any HDD enclosure, which you can find on sites such as Newegg or Amazon. The keyword to search for is "External Hard drive enclosure".
Just make sure to choose SAS interface rather than SATA.
Here is a sample: https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100008040%20600006291
answered Sep 30 '17 at 2:44
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answered Sep 30 '17 at 2:44
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answered Sep 30 '17 at 2:44
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Its also a different interface. You can plug in a sata drive into SAS connectors but not SAS drives into sata connectors
– Journeyman Geek♦
Sep 30 '17 at 2:51
You're right, thank you for pointing that out. I clarified my answer.
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 2:55
None of those enclosures support the requested USB or ethernet
– Damon
Sep 30 '17 at 3:48
Not ethernet of course, but certainly USB 3.0 .
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 4:16
That newegg search considers SATA & SAS equivalent... but it seems like they're not
– Xen2050
Oct 2 at 5:11
add a comment |
Its also a different interface. You can plug in a sata drive into SAS connectors but not SAS drives into sata connectors
– Journeyman Geek♦
Sep 30 '17 at 2:51
You're right, thank you for pointing that out. I clarified my answer.
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 2:55
None of those enclosures support the requested USB or ethernet
– Damon
Sep 30 '17 at 3:48
Not ethernet of course, but certainly USB 3.0 .
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 4:16
That newegg search considers SATA & SAS equivalent... but it seems like they're not
– Xen2050
Oct 2 at 5:11
Its also a different interface. You can plug in a sata drive into SAS connectors but not SAS drives into sata connectors
– Journeyman Geek♦
Sep 30 '17 at 2:51
Its also a different interface. You can plug in a sata drive into SAS connectors but not SAS drives into sata connectors
– Journeyman Geek♦
Sep 30 '17 at 2:51
You're right, thank you for pointing that out. I clarified my answer.
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 2:55
You're right, thank you for pointing that out. I clarified my answer.
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 2:55
None of those enclosures support the requested USB or ethernet
– Damon
Sep 30 '17 at 3:48
None of those enclosures support the requested USB or ethernet
– Damon
Sep 30 '17 at 3:48
Not ethernet of course, but certainly USB 3.0 .
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 4:16
Not ethernet of course, but certainly USB 3.0 .
– Godryc
Sep 30 '17 at 4:16
That newegg search considers SATA & SAS equivalent... but it seems like they're not
– Xen2050
Oct 2 at 5:11
That newegg search considers SATA & SAS equivalent... but it seems like they're not
– Xen2050
Oct 2 at 5:11
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serverfault.com/questions/376780/… related and worth a read. Basically you can't.
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Sep 30 '17 at 1:07
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Give it to a computer recycling place and ask for a used SATA drive or USB External Drive in return. It can't be that big of a drive if it is just laying around and SAS. I'm guessing 300 GB or less. A SATA of comparable size will be simpler and cost next to nothing. As @JourneymanGeek mentioned, it is near impossible to do what you want without a full on workstation used to provide an external interface or some rube Goldberg mechanism.
– Damon
Sep 30 '17 at 3:53