External SAS Enclosure

[GalaxyWide]

I found a great deal on some Seagate constellation 2TB hard drives, but only after the fact did I realize that they are SAS drives. After doing some research, I discovered that SAS drives are incompatible with SATA contollers, so I'll need something special for these.

I got them with the intention of putting a few drives in an external raid enclosure for backup purposes (love to build a server, however dorm rooms tend to be somewhat small for multiple desktops).

So my question is, does anyone know of an external enclosure that runs SAS internally and USB or ESATA externally? Of course, preferably under $100....but all suggestions are totally welcome at this point.

Thanks!

PS: It's looking more and more like I may end up just trying to return them or just cut my losses and get some normal SATA drives. So, new question:

Is it worth it to get an external enclosure that supports 2-disk RAID 1? It seems like the WD/Seagate/etc consumer external drives are the easiest way to go, but 95% of those only have one drive (thus no redundancy), and I sorta want 2. Now the data is nothing terribly critical (mainly just movies, music and odd documents/files), but I'd hate to lose it just the same.

 

[XavierMace]

2 drives in RAID-0 has no redundancy either and would be more vulnerable to failure too.

I don't see you getting an SAS enclusing for under $100. Depending on the price, I might be interested in the drives if you are looking to sell them.

 

[Gillbot]

Your best option is to buy a cheap Dell Perc SAS controller on ebay.

 

[GalaxyWide]

I totally failed on the RAID level, meant to say 1 (mirroring). 2 backup drives in RAID 0...well that'd be quite the paradox. OP edited to reflect the proper level.

Thanks for the reply, that's kind of the conclusion I came to...they seem to start at $250+. PM sent about the drives.

Good find with the controllers, those are great prices! Unfortunately, my desktop resides in a bitfenix prodigy and I have no open expansion slots