[Cialug] Testing SAS drives

[Dave Hala]

I think some of those r610's had non-raid controllers, so you could do JOBD
with the sas backplane.

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 4:49 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> > Find a surplus server with a SAS backplane and the right size drive
> > bays? A 10 year old server like a Dell R610 is basically worthless but
> > you would beable to test drives in it.
> >
> Ah, .. any such HW would include a RAID controller, which makes it just
> about impossible to see the drive itself.
>
> The only way to turn OFF the RAID controller is when using a more modern
> MB with SW RAID.
>
>         Lee
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