- Jul 27, 2019
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We had some Netapp Toshiba Solid State hard drives at work which were out of warranty and so they let us keep them. I have been trying to get them to work in my PC. I bought a SAS PCI card, the LSI Adapter, SAS2 2008 Falcon, a mini SAS 36 to 4x SAS 29 with built in SATA Power Cable and a 4 port SATA power splitter cable. The hard drives are the NetApp X440a-r6 800gb SSD Nse Hard Drive. When it all arrived, to my horror I discovered that the card I bought, did not have a mini sas connector, but had 4 sata connectors. On a whim I bought two adapters for SAS to SATA thinking I could just use those to hook up the drives using the sata power connector and sata data to the card.
When I boot up the computer, the drives don't show up in bios, I figured they might not because they are attached to a PCI card. In device manager on windows 10, I can see the two netapp drives show up as SCSI Drives. So far so good. When I try to partition them in Disk Manager, it starts to initialize, but then I get an IO error.
I am new to this, and was hoping I'd get two fast drives for free and just had to buy a few cheap parts. But I am out of my depth trying to figure out what is wrong so I am asking you wizards here at Tom's. Help me please!
When I boot up the computer, the drives don't show up in bios, I figured they might not because they are attached to a PCI card. In device manager on windows 10, I can see the two netapp drives show up as SCSI Drives. So far so good. When I try to partition them in Disk Manager, it starts to initialize, but then I get an IO error.
I am new to this, and was hoping I'd get two fast drives for free and just had to buy a few cheap parts. But I am out of my depth trying to figure out what is wrong so I am asking you wizards here at Tom's. Help me please!
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