Question What's a proper SAS controller for ordinary desktop PCs?

[Genralkidd]

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 RAM disk to me. I've also read from reviews that some of the SAS controllers are chipset specific and won't just work on any ordinary PC. So what exactly is a proper, basic and preferably cheap SAS controller I can use for a hard drive that'll simply be used as a single storage drive?

 

[USAFRet]

What size/make/model is this drive?

 

[Genralkidd]

What size/make/model is this drive?

It's a 600 GB 15K RPM Seagate Cheetah HDD (ST3600057SS)

 

[Genralkidd]

It's a 600 GB 15K RPM Seagate Cheetah HDD (ST3600057SS)

I also wanted to add that down the road I may be getting larger SAS drives as well, up to 1 TB so the 600 GB drive won't be permanent most likely if that affects the type of controller card I'd need.