I was looking to upgrade my storage and was recommended to go with used SAS drives and an LSI SAS controller. I purchased an LSI 9211-8i HBA, 8TB Seagate Exos drives, and these cables. The drives are not spinning up at all when connected to the power supply. Are these cables not the right choice for this?
Edit: I have confirmed that a regular SATA drive works if connected with an SFF-8087 to Sata cable. Either I've somehow received 10 dead drives or I'm not powering them right.
Edit 2: I'm guessing its related to this:
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/84038-so-your-new-sas-or-sata-drive-wont-start-spin-up/
What an irritating issue.
So my options seem to be:
- Tape mod the SATA power adapter or drives to prevent pin 3 from disabling the drive - cheap but tedious
- Use a molex adapter to power the drives - less cheap, I'd need new PSU and SAS cables
- Upgrade my PSU to one that supports SATA 3.3 - I'll probably do this. I just bought a new PSU for the purpose of powering these drives, so I can still return it.
That is very interesting. I had some SAS drives I was using in a server but I retired them and was trying to use them on a desktop, and had exactly this, and they are HGST as well. I figured it was the adapter, but wasn't sure how to fix it. Thanks for the link.
Nice, hope it helps. I was really surprised by how difficult it was to find out the cause of the issus, but maybe my search skills were just failing me. I'm glad the fix is so simple.
I think your search skills are fine. I pride myself on my google-fu, and I never managed to find this.
Sometimes you just have to hold your head right, I think.