Hello,

Bought a spare super cheap used 3TB drive a year ago, and just figured out it’s not a SATA but a SAS drive.

How fucked am I? What can I do more than using it as a paperweight?

Cheers!

  • Klear@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    PSU you is the other part you don’t want to cheap out on… Guess you got two lessons in one there.

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      A lot of people learn this lesson sadly. It isn’t “sexy” to brag that you have a gold / platinum rated high quality PSU. People would rather add a “Ti” or a “10” to their graphics card and then lose it all when it goes. Same reason why I have an UPS for home PC - sure, overvoltage, undervoltage, electrical noise probably won’t harm the PC. But why risk it? Also having a battery to save your shit, or buy more electricity online when you run out on a prepaid meter is cool (speaking from experience, happened to me like 10 times already lol)

      • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        I never heard about pre paid electric meters for homes. May I ask where you are located? Small UPS seems like the frickin perfect addon to that situation!

    • Valmond@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, for sure. To be totally fair I probably got even more lessons out of it as I upgraded my SOs Duron 650 to an Athlon (so new mobo) and that was what blew up the chep PSU I guess…

      Usually I now go 750-900w platinum just because it’s so nice when the fan doesn’t start before 400 watts (and it heats less ofc).