Customer Reviews

StarTech 18-Inch SAS 29 Pin to SATA Cable with LP4 Power (SAS729PW18)

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

The cable was just what I needed to run SAS Hard drives on my MSI K9A2 Platinum. Zoom! :D

From reading other reviews on this page there seems to be confusion on when/why you'd use this cable.
The purpose is to connect a SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drive to a (RAID or onboard) controller that uses a SATA connector. SAS drives look ALMOST like SATA drives except that the connector is slightly different and has been designed so that you cannot physically plug a SATA data cable into a SAS drive. SAS drive connectors generally combine both power & data into ONE connector that plugs into the drive (although there are SATA cables that do the same thing). What may trip up some folks is that this SAS connector will allow you to connect a SATA controller to a SAS drive but nothing will happen unless the controller specifically works with SAS drives. This probably accounts for some of the negative reviews.

To summarize, this will not "magically" make a SAS drive work with a SATA controller - the controller must support SAS drives for anything productive to occur.

I have bought & used this cables with SAS drives and a compatible controller and everything works fine. The only negative thing I can say about this cable is that you have to be careful plugging in the power supply molex connector as it is possible to push out pins if you do not wiggle both connectors to line up pins properly. Do not attempt to force the white molex connectors together otherwise you may damage a pin or dislodge it from the housing.
I hope this clears up the confusion and you have found this helpful!

Everything fit together nicely, but my MB didn't recognize any HD. I'm running a ASUS P6X58D PREMIUM. I'm going to save the harness in case I might need it in the future. It might work with another MB.

One of the Molex pins popped out making it nearly impossible to plug in. Even when finally seated properly, would not apply power to the drive. This cable simply does not function at all.

Feel frustrations now. From the previous reviews, I thought this item will be helpful to utilize my SAS hard drive on my Lenovo 3000 desktop. However, BIOS does not recognize it even I disconnected all my original hard drives. There was no motherboard compatibility list for this item. You want to check the previous successful cases in the review before you try to buy it. Good luck!

theres no reason to do a huge review when all there is to say is: It does what it is supposed.

My new motherboard would not see my new SAS hard drive when it was connected using the Sata Cable. It did power up but that was it.