Can all four ports work at once (2 internal SATA, 2 external eSATA), or do only 2 ports work a time?
1953717
Yes they can but if you want all four available on the back of the computer you will need an adapter plate with cables which will extend the internal plugs to the back.
1953718
I believe all 4 ports work at once. The reason I say that is: My card always tries to enumerate all 4, and, because only the 2 eSATA are in use, I get a 30 second delay every boot.
769142
Mine has only a USB 3.0 jack. I'm not familiar with "eSATA"; I assumed it referred to the internal SATA interface where the drive itself plugs into the case.
287863
I've only got one graphics card, it's a big one, but none of the ports are blocked. If you used the bottom one as well, it looks to me like you will still be able to use the botton two SATA ports.
1271012
it will work but you wont see the full performance of the drives. you'll get between 300 and 375mb/s on sata 2.
518449
There are TWO esata inputs - each input utilizes 4 drives each. So you'd need two cables to run all of them.
2050645
It has several sata connectors. Probably more than you will ever need unless your building a 12+ disk nas or something similar.
1492142
External? If you mean esata or USB than no. As for an internal sata SSD, M.2's may cost more and could be suseptable to heat in poorly cooled cases. Depending on your motherboard, using the M.2 interface may disable from one to four sata ports and thus may limit the number of drives that can be installed. Check the motherboard's manual if you're concerned. Used as the boot debice, they're blazingly fast.
1848758
The one I received didn't work at all. I returned it for a Drobo. I use 2TB drives in the Drobo so I don't know about 4 in that.
2069091
Yes, the box allows faster interfaces, but a slower SATA I (1.5 Gbps) interface will work.
1018214
With the USB connection it will see both drives. If you use eSATA, you can see only one.
869184
I believe only two at a time are supported, however I was not able to use this card. It comes with a Low Profile front but could not connect any cable to the sata port as it was to close to the case cover. (so not really low profile useable)
518450
Yes, it does require two ESATA ports. However, it comes with a PCIe RAID card which is installed in the server, so you're lack of ESATA ports isn't an issue.
1929384
I have not tried it, but it should be fine. It doesn't care what SATA drive you plug in really, it's up to the OS to figure that out anyway.
813153
Hi.. it goes work fine for you, and as told here, take care with SLI grafical boards and number of acessories working at same time on USB, eSATA, ...
761377
I have not tried it as the ESATA had a different number of pins. My neighbor said to plug I. All three connectors. The ESATA port on the back of my gadget, the USB port in front of my gadget and the other USB into the external hard drive I was trying to set up.
1872238
Thanks for your information. I did also find out that there's a sata port intended for an optical drive. If so, then I can mount the SSD in that bay and still have all 4 bays for data. Now - does anybody know if the BIOS can handle 3TB drives without repartitioning?
2171639
Hi, yes it works, it can handle both PATA and SATA drives, inside the enclosure you will find one connector for each type of interface.