The best possible way to connect SAS-2 Seagate Cheetah to Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Soc Force.

zelazny

zelazny

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Hi guys.
I want to connect Seagate Cheetah ST3450857SS to my mobo Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Soc Force.

I found a couple of solutions.
So...

1 adapter LINK
2 expansion card LINK
3 HBA LINK - what cable I should use? All parts will be bought on eBay.

Now my drives are:
Crucial MX100 and SAMSUNG MZVPW256HEGL

Please help. I am not familiar with SAS drives and how to connect them to modern mobos.
Guys, if any of you know a better solution please very much, share it with me.
HDD is new. I know that this drive will be noisy, but I love the sounds of a working HDD.
Probably this one will be like Boeing engine.
 
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Can't say for certain because I don't have a need to use a sas drive but it looks like you can just connect to it with a sata cable according to the manual so you'd just need an adapter for the cables to fit


Section 3 (or just search for sata)

You'd be far better off using an ssd over this drive though... you won't like 15000 rpm noise, that will be NOISY, hot and actually slower than even a cheap ssd..

Oh and you shouldn't be linking to other stores (in rules), this forum is run by OCUK who sell pc parts etc
 
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zelazny said:
Please help. I am not familiar with SAS drives and how to connect them to modern mobos.
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Why are you even looking at SAS drives? SAS drives are typically for servers because they connect to a raid controller that supports SAS. Consumer grade motherboards don't directly work with SAS so you'd have to buy a compatible raid controller.

So unless you know what you're doing, I'd guess you're staying down the wrong path.
 
The reason why I want to buy this drive is of nostalgic nature. :) I get all information about the controller (different forum), so I won't buy this HDD.
 
I still use a 250GB SATA 10K rpm Western Digital VelociRaptor as a boot drive till this day and its 7-10 years old now with no issues, also had a older generation 300GB model which died. My case has drive bays that quiet it down abit but years ago I put the drive in another case I cant remember what I was doing but what I did remember was the noise it made so be prepared as I would guess a 15K drive would make a fair bit more noise.

Maybe you may get some help in the Servers and Enterprise Solutions subforum.
 
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