OK, so you asked so here is everything you need to know to test SAS drives or format them

Yes this is key to know for I have many question asking for more info on testing SAS drives.. Here you go. Listed below are recommended item to refer to to buy to setup your own SAS drive test station. You need one LSI like HBA or raid controller, a one internal SAS to SAS / power out quad cable. Or if you have a SAS backplan you can get the SAS to SATA bridge cable but you will need to address power. View the compelte video to know your options. Hope this helps some... Enjoy
P.S. Most motehrboard can not see SAS disks even if you have a SATAcable that can connect it up. You need a HBA of a RAID controller to see SAS drive unless you have a Server level motehrboard to work with.
Links
To use an LSI 9200 series HBA controller with internal SAS connections
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The SAS to SAS/Power cable set.
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The SAS to SATA/no power cable set but this needs a backplain for up to foru drive to slide into.
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[@minhashamayim4824]

There are so many useless videos on the subject, only this one actually addresses the problem of using SAS drive on a PC. Thank you and be blessed.

[@jasonallen2264]

This video helped me out tremendously a few months ago when I found a lot of cheap hard drives and decided to setup a homelab. I think I was a little overzealous when I first saw this and bought the linked LSI 9200 card without really understanding the difference between an HBA and a RAID controller as was discussed towards the end. If you're like me and setting something up for ZFS/TrueNas you're gonna want to go for something like the LSI 9211-8i instead, as the MegaRAID cards will not be compatible

[@michaelkaercher]

That was exactly what I was looking for. I bought by accident SAS drives instead of SATA. And I want to use them. I have a little different use case but for me a dedicated enclosure was sort of overkill. Therefore, the cables plus the controller is just perfect. Thanks for Germany.

[@presstmoded]

I've relogged to another account just to watch this video again and give you 2nd like. Thanks a lot, you've really helped out bunch of people.

[@songsan807]

Great video I wished I discovered a year earlier. Brought a big box of bulk SSD drives and got a few SAS drives that I didn't know what they were. Looks like SATA but could not connect them. I just put them into a little box and into a garage. Just earlier this week I found out that they are SAS. Unless I want to go through the hassle of getting a controller card and install into one of my computers, I might have to fork over $100 for one of the external SAS enclosures to test out the SAS.

[@shadowr2d2]

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[@elitesnipergang5065]

last i checked you cant use sata with sas due to sas having no gap in-between the power and data pins

[@syawalnasa]

Tq sir

[@KentHenry8]

Is that a CB or Ham (or GMRS?) radio on your bench behind?

[@leadiususa7394]

Cb

[@nadonadia2521]

Hello I checked your links the controller card comes with a battery is it needed.

[@leadiususa7394]

it helps to make sure your data get written before lose of power. Nice feature to have

[@MartijnGoorman]

​@@leadiususa7394not exactly. The battery holds the data in memory so when the disks/system spins up again it can write that data to the disks. The battery does not power your disks for the last bits.

[@jeremy4491]

I bought a SAS HDD 3.5 and a sata to sas adapter the HDD wont spin up. Can someone help me what should I do to make it work on my desktop? I was thinking to get a SAS crontroller nvme from aliexpress as I have a ITX desktop..

[@fx5492]

Sir, I have SAS Controller On Board in my PC, but I only have SATA hard disk, and can't buy SAS hard disk for some reason. Can I use only the SATA to SAS Converter cable to connect my SATA hard disk to the SAS port? Would it work ?

[@leadiususa7394]

Depends on your SAS controller is a basic controller or it is a SAS raid HBA controller. Most SAS controller will do simple SATA disks so yes this should work for your needs.

[@fx5492]

Thank you for the information, sir

[@Crazy--Clown]

@@fx5492 whats with the Sir rubbish

[@Waltkat]

I got my hands on some 10TB 12gb/sec 7200 rpm HGST SAS drives and would like to use a couple of them in my desktop PC as general storage via a LSI 9300 card. Would this be possible and would Windows 10 recognize the drives? Great info you're providing, BTW. Thanks.

[@leadiususa7394]

Yes, it should work in HBA mode for the drives will just show up as single drives. If you want to RAID them, do you research on the driver but I think it should work basically. Best to either hardware or software RAID 1 the drive for best I/O results

[@Waltkat]

@@leadiususa7394 Thank you for responding. I will look into the RAID 1. I can get 12 of the HGST drives for free and my PC case has room for 8 more drives, but that might be a monumental overkill in terms of storage for my use case. Lol.

[@leadiususa7394]

@@Waltkat Glad that I could help you out...

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[@car-cu4fl]

TL; DR: Most pc motherboards only support SATA storage and do not support SAS storage. This is a terrible video: You say confusing things such as "because the edge connector it is not detectable with a motherboard". Huh? Say it straight: SAS drives are not directly supported by desktop pc motherboards that only have SATA interfaces. You need an interface card and related cables and connectors. This stuff is not difficult to understand if you can just get to the actual point.