Question on SAS drives and controllers

[FrEaKy]

Was handed a few Serial Attached SCSI drives from my boss today, wants me to find a card for them.

They (two) are Seagate 500GB Serial Attached SCSI 7,200RPM 16MB cache cards with the 29-pin connector on the back (power + serial all in one, no breaks between the two).

What kind of card should I look at (im focusing on a purchase from newegg)? What else do I need for the drives? What kind of cables?

I can get the model # from the drive in a bit.

 

[dbwillis]

you need a SAS controller obviously...but 'he wants me to find a card for them' is vague.
Does he want just single drives, no raid? does he want raid0/1 or raid 5?
is the card going into a machine with PCIe slots available or PCI or PCIx slots?
We need more info.

 

[FrEaKy]

The machine its going into is a Dell optiplex 760, which has a PCIe / PCIx slot, the PCIe is taken up already, so we are going for a PCIx slot.
As for raid, I would like to see them in Raid0/1, not Raid 5, but having a card with options for raid 5 if we get a couple more drives wouldnt hurt either.

 

[FrEaKy]

So... in essence..... heres what I need.

I have two (2) Seagate Barracudea ES.2 500GB Serial Attached SCSI 7200RPM 16MB Cache HDD's.
I want to be able to connect them to my system. I do not have a card, and I will NEED TO purchase one. I do not know which card to buy, I am having issues finding the proper one. I want to purchase the card from newegg.
The card needs to have Raid0/1, Raid 5 is not required, but wouldnt mind having it on the card. The card needs to be able to support 2 to 4 HDD's. The card needs to be PCIx.

Now the other issue I have, I found a cable that converts SAS 29-pin connectors (which is whats on the back of the HDD's) to SATA and 4-pin molex. Can this be used without the use of a card?

The model# for the HDD's is ST3500620SS