Does this have a port multiplier so I can connect an eSATA 4 bay enclosure and the computer will see all drives?
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yup yup. I'm using it on a mac mini with four USB 3 ports and it's driving 4 sans digital enclosures with 5 HD bays each. Makes for a great raided server
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I have hooked it up to a esata enclosure with 4 drives and it worked with no problem.
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Yes this does support port multiplier. I have used it on both a 4 bay enclosure and two of them at once on an 8 bay enclosure. I have used them on both the Mac and PC.
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Yes. It does support port-multiplier enclosures as well as software RAID sets with a port-multiplier enclosure.
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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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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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No, I am using it in a non-raid setup. I did try to use it with a 2 TB drive as a 4th drive. It didn't work. I then put a 500 MB drive on it and it worked. I put the 2 TB directly on a standard sata port.
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There are TWO esata inputs - each input utilizes 4 drives each. So you'd need two cables to run all of them.
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it supports full Sata III with USB3.0 but 3Gbs with esata cable..... which is what i use. It is very fast and by far the best Hard Drive Enclosure for 2.5-Inch hard drive i have ever used bar none !
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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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I believe it did. At the time of purchase I didn't have an eSata port to use it on.
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As I understand it, port-multiplier on this unit refers to the fact that they can be daisy chained using the e-sata port to other NAS units. You will probably connect the unit to your computer or router through the USB port, which work perfectly. Even if you don't have enough existing USB ports you can cheaply buy and external USB hub. I have the 2 Bay unit and have it configured as RAID 1. I am very happy with the unit and have had no problems. I am not sure if you are using PC or Mac but on my Mac it took less than 5 minutes to configure the unit and have it ready to use. I would recommend using "red" drives. I bought WD red 2 Terr drives from Ebay. Everything works great. I hope this answers your question and helps. Harry Riley
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I do believe that you need both cables to get all 8 drives. I think it is 4 per but I have not tested as I only have 4 drives at this time.
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StarTech PEXESAT32 2 Port SATA 6 Gbps PCI Express eSATA Controller Card states that it supports RAID0 and RAID1
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The eSATA port and the internal SATA port next to it share the same port -- you have to change the jumpers to connect the eSATA port.
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It turns out the SATA port is just a pass through for the eSata port on the outside of the card. There is no built in SATA port on this board.
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yes, IF it supports SATA port multiplying. I didn't see that listed on the spec sheet listed on amazon though (or anything for that matter, rather empty). All the enclosure is is two 1-> 4 multiplier boards in a fancy case.
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Yes but how many eSATA connections does your 4 drive enclosure take? 2 well you need two of these then.
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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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Hi, yes it has four 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T - RJ-45 ports. Thanks, PCrush
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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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The RAID processing is on board the ProRAID. The connection to the computer is a standard USB 3.0 or eSATA (multiplier) port. No special interface card required for USB 3.0. eSATA must be able to handle multiple drives.