Installing a Hitachi UltraStar 15K147 SAS harddrive

[UtCollector]

Can anyone tell me how to install it in my desktop pc..? its a p5N32 e SLi plus motherboard.

Can i use a speciaal type of adapter ore do i need some other motherboard.? I'm not planing to get a server motherboard.

Here is the drive: http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/p...trastar/15K300/

thanks

[jaclaz]

This motherboard? :

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmen...l3=397&l4=0

Interfaces:

Storage Southbridge

1 xUltraDMA 133/100/66/33

6 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports

NVIDIA MediaShield™ RAID supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 and JBOD span cross Serial ATA drives

Hard disk interfaces:

(from http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/p...trastar/15K300/ )

Interfaces:

Ultra 320 SCSI

FCAL 4Gb/s

SAS 3Gg/s

You will need a SCSI Ultra 320 or SAS adapter card, that's not going to be cheap (example prices):

http://www.pc-pitstop.com/scsi_controllers/

http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sas_controllers/

Could you expand on the reasons why you want/need to install that drive and not a "normal" SATA one?

Hitachi examples:

http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/p...rastar/A7K1000/

http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/p...skstar/E7K1000/

jaclaz

[UtCollector]

Yes its that motherbord that i have. A light version of the striker mobo.

Thanks for the links. i Indeed need a Sas adapter card it seems if i keep the motherboad i have now.

I got 2 of those harddrives at a online oction. For a very small price. I would like to place those in a RIAD 0 settup. Just like to try things i havent done before.

After some browsing i found 2 new motherboards that got a sas interface:

ASUS P6T Deluxe: http://www.hardware.info/nl-NL/news/ymickp...rbord_van_ASUS/

P5N64 WS Professional: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/cp...board_preview/3

Both next gen mobo's with ddr 3 memory. I'm better of getting a new mobo i gues?