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I've decided to build a new system to replace our old Intel based one. As part of this, I've realized that I haven't been doing backups of our family photos and such, and I want to transfer our old Intel I3 system (running Windows 10) into a system that I just turn on every couple of months and do a wifi backup of the drives in our other systems, especially the one that has 20 years of our digital photos and videos on it.
Looking back on the system, we have just over 1 TB of photos and videos. I've gone ahead and purchased a SAS controller that folks have said works fine with Windows 10 - got it for 5 bucks shipped on Ebay. Then I purchased 2 4TB SAS hard drives for about $23 each.
I'm planning on putting Windows 10 on an external 480GB USB SSD that I got for 12 bucks, then putting the 2 drives and the controller inside the case. Then I'll add a wifi dongle, and do occasional hard drive backups to one of the 2 drives every 2 or 3 months, and copy that drive over to the other drive for an additional backup. Then I'll turn the system off for another few months, until i want to do another using the wifi router.
Right now I'm looking for some inexpensive SAS cables to hook the drives up to the controller card. Obviously, I'm trying to do this on the cheap, since you can see that I only paid 5 bucks shipped for the controller card. I only need these for the 2 drives, and don't need to hook up additional drives. Can anyone recommend a place where I might be able to find some inexpensive SAS cables? With my inexperience, I'm a little worried that I might buy the wrong cables, since there seem to be a wide variety of them. Thanks in advance!
Looking back on the system, we have just over 1 TB of photos and videos. I've gone ahead and purchased a SAS controller that folks have said works fine with Windows 10 - got it for 5 bucks shipped on Ebay. Then I purchased 2 4TB SAS hard drives for about $23 each.
I'm planning on putting Windows 10 on an external 480GB USB SSD that I got for 12 bucks, then putting the 2 drives and the controller inside the case. Then I'll add a wifi dongle, and do occasional hard drive backups to one of the 2 drives every 2 or 3 months, and copy that drive over to the other drive for an additional backup. Then I'll turn the system off for another few months, until i want to do another using the wifi router.
Right now I'm looking for some inexpensive SAS cables to hook the drives up to the controller card. Obviously, I'm trying to do this on the cheap, since you can see that I only paid 5 bucks shipped for the controller card. I only need these for the 2 drives, and don't need to hook up additional drives. Can anyone recommend a place where I might be able to find some inexpensive SAS cables? With my inexperience, I'm a little worried that I might buy the wrong cables, since there seem to be a wide variety of them. Thanks in advance!