I get so used to swapping seamlessly between SAS and SATA drives on the poweredges that it's easy to forget they're actually different systems. It's only when I come to take one the SAS drives and try it in a desktop machine do I remember!

There are a few SAS cards that can be had for less than £100, if you're spending over a grand on a drive and tapes, I'd say you could stretch to a SAS card, hardly a deal breaker.