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Can I connect a SATA disk on a SAS connector on the motherboard?
Can I connect SATA drives to SAS connectors?
Yes, well known question / answer
Does the 6 Gb/s transfer rate means that I'll get an equivalent of SATA 3 (which is important if I use SATA 3 SSDs)?
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What kind of HDD connectors are this?
UPDATE: the world works in mysterious ways.
TL;DR: This connector is SSA - Serial Storage Architecture, developed by IBM in 1990, and used in their storage arrays (paired with mainframes, which are ...
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How do I connect a SAS3 drive to a SAS2-capable motherboard that only has SATA-style ports?
The 22-pin SFF-8482 adapter shown in the picture does work in this situation. As it turns out, my SAS hard drives have a feature known as "SAS Power Disable" according to Seagate's detailed ...
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How to get an SAS LTO-4 drive to work on a normal PC?
You need to buy PCIe SAS Controller, like this one: LSI SAS3081E-R ebuy
You can plug LSI-SAS3081E-R to PCIe x16 port...
or you can buy something like Adaptec 6405E or PCA-00279-01-B, to use PCIe x1 ...
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How to add User Defined Language XML File to Notepad++
In the main menu click Language/User Defined Language/Define your language... the window that you have a screenshot of on the right side will appear. Then click the Import... button near the top and ...
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Are SATA controllers SAS compatible?
No. An SAS (Serially Attached SCSI) controller is needed to make changes to an SAS drive, despite the partial similarity in connectors.
Often those controller cards need additional drivers ...
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Is it safe to enable Virtualization on my laptop?
Actually, a virtual machine can be used to make a machine safer. For example, if a rogue website managed to install malware on your laptop while using a browser running in a VM, once the VM shuts down,...
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Can I connect a SATA disk on a SAS connector on the motherboard?
The Wikipedia says
SAS offers backward compatibility with SATA, versions 2 and later. This allows for SATA drives to be connected to SAS backplanes. The reverse, connecting SAS drives to SATA ...
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Vim color schemes and SAS programs
Explaining this behaviour
Syntax highlighting is meant to modify a colour scheme. The default SAS syntax highlighting is meant to modify a normal colour scheme, like I use, and then it is suitable to ...
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Mixing SATA and SAS drives on same controller
Althought the answer above might have been correct in 2012, I think it is outdated as of today especially in Enterprise environments. Today lots of vendors use SATA SSDs or SATA HDDs in big storage ...
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Multiple SAS Controllers
You can connect many drives to a single SAS controller, using SAS expanders in a daisy-chain layout.
For example, each of the SFF-8087 ports on your H700 can connect to to an expander card. Expanders ...
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Hard Drive Power On Hours
The answer to this question is "we can not provide you for the answer you are looking for as it doesnt exist". You are trying to purchase drives which are past there prime, and which are being sold ...
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How to add User Defined Language XML File to Notepad++
The XML file you show already contains complete definition of the UDL.
Copy everything beetween tags <UserLang and </UserLang> also including them.
Locate the file userdefinelang.xml. It is ...
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How to connect a SATA III port to a SAS hard drive?
On my motherboard, the ASUS Z9PA-D8, it says that it has a row of 8 SAS ports for connecting to SAS hard drives.
Your getting confused. Your motherboard documentation indicates that the ASUS Pike ...
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Do all drives need to be SAS or can one RAID array be SATA?
Usually it's strongly advised NOT to mix drives with different interfaces. It may work perfectly fine, or wreak havoc and eat your data.
Furthermore, if you plan to simply install 7K RPM drives, SAS ...
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Is it possible to connect SAS card using SATA cables to SAS enclosure then connect SATA drive
I had almost the same issue with IcyDock MB996SP-6SB (specs says it accepts sas/sata drives; and I have a sas controller) however I never got it working with SAS drives; but all worked well with SATA ...
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What type of connector is this? MSA 2040
I do not know specifically what the name of that connector that is, but the photo is of a server midplane, and those connectors are probably hot-swap capable cage connectors which interface with a ...
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Do SAS to SATA cables work interchangeably?
SAS and SATA use different signaling voltages. Using SATA on a SAS backplane will function but the opposite will not, as a consequence of the voltage ranges.
Your scenario seems to be ok, before your ...
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How to use a SAS drive as an external hard disk?
I came across two SAS to USB adapters that seem to have the necessary SAS controller as well as physical connectors; however the cost is going to be prohibitive for many.
Ebay $600
https://www.ebay....
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Is it safe to enable Virtualization on my laptop?
Safety risks associated with a VM on your machine? No, not unless you allow it to access your host system, which is disabled by default. You'd have to break it pretty intentionally for it to ...
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Blanking an SAS HD without an SAS dock / server
If your question is correct, your motherboard is SATA, it won't talk to SAS drives. Your docking station might say SAS/SATA drive, but it won't work (see PS if that's the case).
I am afraid you will ...
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How do I connect a SAS3 drive to a SAS2-capable motherboard that only has SATA-style ports?
Your drive's SFF-8639 interface isn't compatible with any of the ports on your motherboard
Your Seagate ST6000NM0034 drive has a SFF-8639 12 Gbit/s SAS connector. I couldn't find an image of the ...
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Disconnect the SAS on T7500
According to the T7500 manual, page your SAS connectors are directly on the motherboard. They are not from an add in card. It using an on-motherboard LSI 1068e chip.
See
So no, there is no way to ...
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How to connect a SAS drive to a notebook?
It is certainly POSSIBLE to do this - however, there may well be NO substantial demand for it - and so, it is simply not worth a manufacturer, to take the time, and trouble, to do the engineering ...
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Can Storage Spaces drives be moved to a SAS controller without data loss?
This has been tested and works when moving drives to a SAS HBA controller.
SAS Raid controller has not been tested.
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