How can I connect a SAS disk to a regular PC?

Question

Hard disks

I inherited a SAS disk, but I can't connect it.
I was looking for adapters to use it as an external one - I found only similarities of a server.
If I understand correctly, then SATA is slower, and USB is even worse, which makes a hard one from 12gb / s ~ 5,

Could you advise how it can be used to the maximum?
If for this you need to assemble some kind of server or storage for 5k - can it just be connected like an external drive with some kind of SAS-SATA-USB connectors?

Answer 1

Try to squeeze at least 2 Gbps out of one mechanical 7200rpm at least in pure seqscan. Then already talk about "SATA is slower, and USB is even worse"
You need a SAS controller. I doubt that they exist in the format of an external disk. Although somewhere you can look for the Chinese, and sometimes this is not the case.

Answer 2

You need a sas controller and a sas cable

Answer 3

The speed of usb3, in my opinion, is about 500 megabits per second, the speed of mechanical disks is about 200+ megabits per second, that is, even USB overlaps two and a half times .
Most likely there is no way to connect, since there are no cheap household adapters, and the prices for non-household ones are such that it’s easier to buy a couple of regular external sites for 2tb and there will still be change

Answer 4

There are working jumpers on the elli express, from SAS to SATA, which can then be easily plugged into a docking station connected via USB and everything works, not on all drives of course, but the 2.5 format pulls. Here is an example of such a design.