Hello, first post on here but could really do with some help or opinions .

 

I have started my build and I want to utilise a number of 2tb sas drives I have 

 

I know I cant use them natively with an matx build as its backplane is sata however I am struggling to find any detail regarding pci-e sas controllers 

 

From what I am aware sas combines power and the connector but I'm struggling to understand how I could connect my sas drives to my build . If anyone has any recommendations it would be appreciated .

 

My build is as follows

 

Ryzen 5 

16gb 

2 x 4tb ironwolf 

1 x 500 GB m2 for cache

 

I really want to add my 6 x 2tb sas to my array as I already have these drives 

 

Thanks in advance 

With a cable similar to this:

Thanks,  will this work with any sas controller and is there any recommended for unraid or will any do ?

Any will do but the other end depends on the controller, e.g. sff-8087 is usually used for SAS2 controllers, sff-8643 for SAS3.

Thanks , found the cable , I'll have a look for controllers and give it a go.

 

Appreciate the help on this.