SAS hard drive re-format problems 1

[cgt2408]

Hi, I have a small number of 450GB SAS Hard Drives that I want to wipe/reformat. I had a connection that I used to connect to my laptop for some SATA drives to do the same and that worked fine (USB'd to the laptop) whilst Maplin assured me this would work with both drives, it just doesn't!

Can anyone tell me where I may be able to get a lead to do this please???

Many thanks

Chris

 

[BadBigBen]

SATA drives will work on SATA and SAS controllers, but SAS drives will only work on SAS controllers!!!

AFAIK, there are NO USB adapters available for attaching a SAS drive...

the only way I could think of on attaching those drives would be through a SAS Controller (Adaptec, Promise, HP/LSI) build into a desktop PC...


Ben
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[cgt2408]

Many thanks Ben!