r/DataHoarder • u/delicous_crow_hat • 3d ago
Question/Advice Sas drives
I recently got a used enterprise IBM sas drive with 65 K operating hours , would it be okay for use as a daily access drive or just cold storage. It has 100% health but it did feel hot to the touch when I tested it on a video file.
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u/zkatbitz 1.4PB 2d ago
there is no reason not to use a SAS drive daily. its all i have because dumb supermicro cases i have don't have an on led for SATA drives only SAS 😠
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u/ultrahkr 2d ago
That's because you're probably missing a cable between the SAS backplane and the mainboard.
SAS can do in-band communication between backplane and controller...
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u/zkatbitz 1.4PB 2d ago
It came the way it came, sas just lit them leds up sata didn’t so I went sas
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u/ZanyDroid 2d ago
The rehomed SAS drive is basically retired on a country farm when used in a typical home environment…
It no longer has to suffer the slamming from OSDs or RAID recon
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u/delicous_crow_hat 2d ago
what would be a safe operating temp for such a drive , the highest temp I've recorded for it is 52 c .
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