SAS drives

[SoundEng]

Evening,

I have a couple of 300gb 15k Drives that I want to use a boot drive for my server. Now I have an SAS controller (Dell Perc 6/i) but atm I'm running SATA drives off of it via a 4 way breakout cable (SAS Controller to 4 x SATA HDD Splitter Cable SFF-8484 to 4 x 7 Pin S-ATA)

Now my question is, How can I connect my two 15k SAS drives to the controller without a backplane? (The drives were previously in a dell poweredge 1950)

I have looked at getting a cage for the drives but these are quite expensive and require two sata channels for SAS?!

Is there a cheap alternative that means I can use the drives without using up more than 1 sata channel per drive?

Cheers

 

[rpstewart]

I'm a little hazy on this so double check but I *think* you should be able to swap your existing splitter cable for one that's a single SFF-8484 to 4 x SFF-8482 (make sure it has molex connectors for each 8482 end too). The 8482 end should be SATA compatible letting you run 2xSATA and 2xSAS.

 

[SoundEng]

Thanks for that, I think that looks like it would work. Cables aren't cheap though

Might just sell them and get myself an SSD. If you're in the know for these sort of drives could I possibly point you towards my price check thread in the MM?

Thanks