Bought 2 Refurbished 2 TB HDs on Ebay

Here I am wishing you luck.   

   

Well folks I learned the difference between SATA and SAS today when my 2 refurbished 2TB HDDs arrived. It was a $30 lesson since they cost $15 apiece and they don't fit. :-(

I guess I missed that important fact that it was SAS in the description. It was there but I missed it. The connectors look so close too but not close enough. :-)

They sure are nice looking high quality looking items, but they belong in a server not a desktop computer. I did find out that SATA will work with a SAS controller but not the other way around.

Oh well, maybe that is why they were so cheap. They are nice paper weights and will hold down stacks of paper on my desks till I resell them to some other desktop person that needs a $ lesson. :-)

As long as I had the Velox open I stuck the extra 500 MB SATA from the old Digital Storm beast in it and I am happy enough I guess. I moved all the music & documents off the 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus and put it on the transferred HDD. So now I have more of the 970 EVO Plus free for stuff that needs to be accessed FAST! :-)



Edited by Onkel_Ken - 01 Nov 2022 at 11:41am

@hoserator,

Apparently, they are designed for server rooms. They appear to be of extremely good quality. This $30 lesson is something I will remember. SAS HDD Server Room stuff - SATA HDD Desktop Stuff. :-)

Next time I will check to verify SATA which I assumed it was.

Sounds like it's time to sell a couple of enterprise quality refurbished HDDs on eBay for about $30 a piece.

I will look into the SAS to SATA adapters. I wonder how that would fit in the small space that the HDD fits in the Velox.

I went ahead and ordered 2 more 2TB HDDs from the same guy on eBay. I am a glutton for punishment. But this time I made sure they were SATA. :-)

They were listed at $25 apiece or make an offer. I offered $40 for 2 which wasn't accepted but $50 was accepted for the 2 drives.

Western Digital - WD20EZRX - WD Green - 3.5" 2TB SATA HDD - TESTED

Wish me luck this time. :-)

I will check out the SAS to SATA adapters and if that works I might stick those 2 SAS drives in my 12 year old beast. There is room behind the HDD drives for any extra cabling needed.

You could always go old school and just have them openly laying inside the case.

I got 2 more 2TB Western Digital HDDs on order that should be SATA this time. I will put them in the 2 HDD slots in my Velox case.

I will put the 500MB back in the old beast when those 2 come in for the Velox.

The two SAS 2TBs HDD I will stick in the old beast since there is plenty of HDD slots and open in the back for cabling after I investigate the appropriate SAS to SATA adapters. Plus the old beast came with all the extra power cables and stuff in a box they used to send with the systems which should make the job easy. :-)

I will let you guys know as the saga continues. I think I am on the right track now.