mornelourens17
Epic Member
Hi All!
So, as my title states, I was blind enough to buy the cheapest drives I could find back in November and ended up with buying two 14TB EXOS SAS drives from Loot without noticing that their interface is SAS, and not SATA. It was only until two months later when I tried to install them in my little NAS, that I realized this mistake. One of the drives also has a tiny dent on the body, which I also only realized when I removed them from the packaging this past Friday.
So due to the fact that I took two months to open them for the first time, and to report the dent, Loot is not willing to help me swop them for some SATAIII drivers (or Credit). I understand this, business is business, and the reason for the thread is not to point fingers at Loot, just merely to explain my situation.
What I'm looking to get out of this thread, is guidance so that I would be able to use these drives, even if its within my own Rig, just as storage. I'm trying to find a solution that wont cost me an arm and a kidney just to get them to a point where I can utilize the storage.
Thanks in advance!
So, as my title states, I was blind enough to buy the cheapest drives I could find back in November and ended up with buying two 14TB EXOS SAS drives from Loot without noticing that their interface is SAS, and not SATA. It was only until two months later when I tried to install them in my little NAS, that I realized this mistake. One of the drives also has a tiny dent on the body, which I also only realized when I removed them from the packaging this past Friday.
So due to the fact that I took two months to open them for the first time, and to report the dent, Loot is not willing to help me swop them for some SATAIII drivers (or Credit). I understand this, business is business, and the reason for the thread is not to point fingers at Loot, just merely to explain my situation.
What I'm looking to get out of this thread, is guidance so that I would be able to use these drives, even if its within my own Rig, just as storage. I'm trying to find a solution that wont cost me an arm and a kidney just to get them to a point where I can utilize the storage.
Thanks in advance!