Motherboard's SATA port MUST support Port Multiplier in order for your computer to recognize multiple hard drive if the unit is connected via eSATA. Is this true for this motherboard. Also, do the onboard sata3 and sata2 ports support 'Port Multiplier'?
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No they do not, I have tested it with mine. I am using a Sil3124 based PCI card with two esata ports to hook up my external drive enclosures.
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The device uses a standard SATA port. I personally don't really like the device and am planning on getting a better more costly version. It worked for me once...and not a couple of other times when i tried to clone with it.
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Hello fellow Transcend card user:First of all, I am not using my card in a RAID configuration. However, I do believe your assumption is correct. I have an ASUS MoBo and to access the installed RAID functionality of the MoBo, I have to attach the hard drives directly to a specific set of SATA III I/O ports. You may want to check your MoBo manual for such requirements. You may also want to pose this question to your Mobo manufacturer. Further, you may want to consider running your RAID configuration from a USB-3 and/or e-SATA external RAID enclosure. Hope this information can be of some help - Good luck. Hello fellow Transcend card user:First of all, I am not using my card in a RAID configuration. However, I do believe your assumption is correct. I have an ASUS MoBo and to access the installed RAID functionality of the MoBo, I have to attach the hard drives directly to a specific set of SATA III I/O ports. You may want to check your MoBo manual for such requirements. You may also want to pose this question to your Mobo manufacturer. Further, you may want to consider running your RAID configuration from a USB-3 and/or e-SATA external RAID enclosure. Hope this information can be of some... » Read More Hello fellow Transcend card user:First of all, I am not using my card in a RAID configuration. However, I do believe your assumption is correct. I have an ASUS MoBo and to access the installed RAID functionality of the MoBo, I have to attach the hard drives directly to a specific set of SATA III I/O ports. You may want to check your MoBo manual for such requirements. You may also want to pose this question to your Mobo manufacturer. Further, you may want to consider running your RAID configuration from a USB-3 and/or e-SATA external RAID enclosure. Hope this information can be of some help - Good luck. « Show Less
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Further to my previous answer, if you have SATA III, you are really going to have to bite the bullet and upgrade your motherboard to one that is compatible with SATA III. I just spent 2 months trying to do what you want and never found any satisfactory solution until I found a used MoBo on line that was compatible with SATA III. There are lots of them out there and the time you will save is worth the money you will spend.
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It is probable that the eSata must use the onboard SATA port only. Meaning, it is only a through port for the SATA on your motherboard. Try connecting a SATA cable from the motherboard to the SATA connector on the top of the card.
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The card reader functionality requires the USB connection. The sata connection is just for the esata port.
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Although the item in question does have both an eSata port as well as an internal Sata port, unfortunately you must sacrifice the internal Sata port in which you have available to you only to allow it as use for a pass-through to the external eSata port as, without this pass-through, the eSata port would not function.
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USB likely feeds only the additional USB ports on the front. Device is Sata therefore using Sata for data transfer. Do you have a SATA port free. I didn't because my 6 Hardrives used them. I used a spare sata PCI card
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To be clear. This device does not HAVE a port multiplier built in. It does support external enclosures that have already have port multiplier capability. It should also be noted that this adapter supports most, but not all, port multipliers. As listed on the manufacturer's page: Support SiI-3726, SiI-4726, JMB393, JMB394, JMB321, 88SM4140.
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It's the same connection as a 2tb, it's SATA3, any windows 7 or 8 will compatible, the major spec you have to look is your motherboard, it has to be a uefi compatible board to go beyond the 2tb limit, if it's a recent motherboard it probably is, just check your manufacturer and model to be 100%. Search for: 3tb and uefi motherboards.Hope this helps
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The eSATA port and the upper port are shared, so in order to enable the eSATA port on the back you have to change a small jumper on the card itself.I don't recall whether you can have both the upper SATA port and the eSATA port enabled simultaneously, though.
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You could connect it to the SATA port on a mainboard with an adapter cable, but I don't know what kind of thru put you would get. http://www.amazon.com/SATA-to-eSATA-Cable/dp/B003ENM5IA/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1385984735&sr=1-1&keywords=sata+to+esata+adapter
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It has been some time since I used this card. My recollection is that it is only PCI (not express format). It was purchased for the IDE and eSata functionality, although I believe it has at least 1 internal Sata connector.
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Motherboards have sata ports, not cpu's, your question doesn't make any sense.I am not being mean, maybe you put your question in the wrong place, if it helps most motherboards have at least four and up, unless they are mini itx and then they usually have 2.
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Don't have exactly such an experience, but this is one among not many (if not the only!) capable to connect multi-drive bays with spawned (e)SATA. Have connected self-made 5 drives bay, worked fine.However, i would advice you to ask Drobo's tech support regarding tech specs requirement and if their boxes either provide multi-drive (spawned SATA), or single logical RAID-drive on eSATA port.
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I had two 3tb plugged in with windows 7 a while ago and I remember them working. Currently, I have 3 2TB Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 and win8 and it reports: Current Transfer Mode: ultra DMA mode 6, Host link Speed Generation 2(3.0 Gb/s), Device Link Speed Generation 2(3.0 Gb/s). I don't know if this is SATA3 or SATA2. Based on the report of Generation 2 I would suspect SATA2. Anyway, here is my info, maybe you can understand it.
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I don't think the SATA data cable is supplied. I had a spare one. Look in the manual for where the connector is on the motherboard. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=99190 - This link has pictures which show the red additional SATA Cable connected to the motherboard.