2 eSata cables = 8 drives, or 16 drives? Specs are conflicting: From the specs: * 2-port eSATA PCIe HBA included, to connect up to two units for a maximum of 16 HDDs * Accesses eight hard drives using only two cables *Access to 8 Hard Drives while...
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You can't. Although the Silicon Image chipset may handle 16 disks, the design of the RAID enclosure is a dual backplane, requiring 1 cable per 4 disks. In my research I have seen a LOT of folks mentioning the HighPoint RocketRAID 2314 I think was the model #, the 4 port PCIe port multiplier card... If you utilize one of those, I would think you could connect 2 of these enclosures to run 16 disks. I have used RocketRAID cards in the distant past (PATA) and had excellent results. I wouldn't hesitate to use their newer stuff...
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Daisy chaining using eSATA is not possible.Also there is this misconception than eSATA rated at 6 GB/s is faster than USB 3.0 rated at 5GB/s, but it doesn't work that way. In practice, your USB 3.0 will have read/write speeds of 400 MB/s while the eSATA will get 350 MB/s.
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The system will see both drives individually, but if you are using esata, you need an esata interface that has the capability of splitting the port.
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Sorry not sure to answer that, but giving you an idea. I use it to connect my 4 bay eSATA to my laptop USB 2.0 (which doesn't have port multiplier). My laptop can access all four drives on the enclosure. Hope this helps. Toshiba laptop, San Digital Tower Raid TR4M.
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On each sata cable you can plug 3 devices ie:3 cables x 3devices each = 9 total. Hope this helps
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No. Each port requires an interrupt to the microprocessor (CPU). Daisy chaining would confuse the system so CPU would not know which device it was dealing with. So that will not work. What you need is a USB hub. That will power both USB drives and act as an intermediate processor which the CPU can deal with. USB hubs are rather inexpensive. USB, however, will be considerably slower than eSata. But it is more convenient.
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From the printed manual:There are 2 SATA ports and 1 eSATA port. we name these CN1 to CN3 (CN1=SATA, farthest away from the bracket; CN2=eSATA; CN3=SATA, top, near the bracket). Changing the jumper setting allows you to select between external amd internal ports to use.JMP1-JMP21-2 Closed = CN1 and CN2 enabled (CN2=eSATA)2-3 Closed = CN1 and CN3 enabled (both internal SATA)
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If you are referring to drive connectors then it has 6, you can use SATA drives but for 2.5" you'll need a tray adapter.
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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.
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Just checked my QNAP TS869-PRO 8-bay NAS and sure enough, there are two eSata connectors at the bottom right in the back of the unit. Above that are 4 USB 2.0 connectors and the two RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet connectors. Above those are two USB 3.0 connectors, a vga port and I think, an HDMI port. This thing is a monster for performance, and if you have an extra $1000 the 879-PRO has an I3 processor and the ability for 10-Gb Ethernet.
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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)
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There are no SATA cables provided. If you're going to use two drives, you need two SATA cables. However, only one power cable is needed which is nice.
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You will need Qty 2 USB ports, an audio port, a 1394 com port,( if you need it), A four pin connector from your power supply. Also, you can plug the esata connector into a sata port if you do not have esata port. I hope this helps.
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Each port can handle 4 drives such that 2 ports = 8 drives. If your question is a sub of the 4 to 1 octopus being more than one, I don't think so. If you really need more than 8, you need an Enterprise level raid card with 3-4 or more ports depending on the number of drives you wish to run.
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8 SATA drives using 2 cables, it has 2 SAS connectors, 4 SATA drives per connectors, SAS to SATA, "Serial Attached SCSI" SAS allows up to 65,535 devices through the use of expanders
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It has several sata connectors. Probably more than you will ever need unless your building a 12+ disk nas or something similar.
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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.