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I have IBM System x3650 M2 and it has only SAS drives attached

It has 7 PCI-e empty slots.

I want to know what type of card I need which I can put in PCI-E so that I can join 2 SATA drives of higher capacity like 4TB or 3TB

fixer1234
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None.

You need no extra card. A SAS connector accept both SAS and SATA drives.

Should all SAS connectors already be filled then you have the choice between:

  • PCI-e SATA cards (no RAID)
  • PCI-e SATA RAID cards.
  • PCI-e SAS cards (no RAID)
  • PCI-e SAS RAID cards.
  • Port multipliers between the current SAS connectors and the SAS drives.

(SATA drives on port multipliers also work but are NOT recommended since SATA can fail non-gracefully and block access to all drives on the port multiplier.)

Hennes
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You need a SATA RAID controller that can handle those sized drives.

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