I have a Dell T710 with Seagate Cheetah 15k.7 SAS disks. If the T710 motherboard dies, I'll need to resort to one of my nightly off-site backups and salvage the journal/logfile from the SAS disk to bring the backup bang up-to-date.
I need a way of reading the healthy-but-inaccessible SAS disc that does not depend on the only SAS-capable machine I have to hand.
So I bought:
SAS to SATA Adapter
and:
USB 2.0 to SATA Adapter with Power
…so that I could read the SAS drive via USB.
I can plug it all together just fine. The chain looks like: USB -> SATA -> SAS. But the drive does not spin up and the computer doesn't even acknowledge anything being attached by USB.
Is there a cheap external enclosure I can buy for SAS drives? I can't believe these USB to SATA adapters are everywhere but the USB to SAS adapters are almost non-existent…
Best Answer
Such device finally exist CXRT SAS to USB adapter CXRT-USB3. You can find it on Amazon, eBay and couple other places. There are 2 downsides in my opinion. It’s almost 100 times more expensive than cheap SATA to USB, around 700$. And it supports only SAS, not SATA so you may need to carry multiple devices.