SAS Controller Card

Hi, I'm trying to set up a PCIe RAID Controller into a new GIGABYTE B550 Aorus Elite V2 motherboard that I recently bought, and I'm having the following issue: What's expected? - The BIOS of the PCIe RAID Controller itself must show up first before POST. What happens in my case? - It shows...

I recently came across a 600GB Seagate Cheetah 15K RPM SAS hard drive and I've found a lot of mixed info about the speeds of these drives. I'm currently only able to connect it to a SATA2 SAS controller which only supports speeds up to 3 Gb/s. I know for ordinary hard drives that's still plenty...

Hey everyone, My employer has the opportunity to purchase a Dell MD1400 JBOD. Can anyone recommend a SAS controller card solution for that piece of hardware? It uses a 12Gbs HD-Mini SAS cable so the controller card would need to be compatible with that. This JBOD would be connected to a Dell...

I bought this SAS Controller from eBay: "FUJITSU SAS RAID Controller D2616-A22 GS1 PCI-E x8 6Gbps LSI MegaRAID" and I would like to connect 8 SATA HDDs into the card. I have no previous experience with SATA connections and it seems there are quire a few different cables out there. What kind of...

I've got a spare SAS drive I want to use on my desktop PC. I don't need to run it in RAID or anything, it's just going to be a single storage drive. I've looked for SAS controllers on ebay but they vary wildly in price and specs. Some even require DRAM and a battery which sounds like a hybrid...

Hello Everyone, Hoping I can get some help here. My second GPU is returning a code 43 error, installed in my second PCI-e port (second closest to the CPU) PC Specs: Mobo: Gigabyte x99 Ultra Gaming CPU: Intel i7 6800k no overclock RAM: 2x 16gb ddr4 GPU: 2x Nvidia GTX 1070 - Working: 1...

I'm just having a hard time deciding...