SATA disk drives are normally in a one drive/one SATA controller port configuration. But in recent years, a new approach, known as the port multiplier, has extended this connectivity to multiple ...

Unfortunately, hard drives, like nature, abhor a vacuum. They fill up with music, recorded televisions, videos, pictures from your Aunt Gloria’s wedding, anything and almost everything from the ...

Also called a "fan-out," it is a device that expands one physical socket/jack into several. For example, an eSATA port multiplier allows multiple external SATA drives to be connected to one eSATA port ...

Lets You Connect Up To Five SATA Drives To Any SATA Port SAN JOSE, CA (September 14, 2009) -- Addonics Technologies (www.addonics.com) today announced a feature-rich hardware port multiplier, the ...

The XRS10L140 and XRS10L240 are five- and six-port SATA port multiplier ICs, with the '240 also featuring port selector functionality. Both devices run at 1.5 and 3.0 Gbits/s, and have an analog front ...

Allowing users to build a multiterabyte external storage device, this new JBOD product family features a USB 2.0 controller, an eSATA port multiplier plus RAID5 controller, and a dual-port IDE-to-SCSI ...

I have an option to buy a four bay enclosure that will support either (but not both), which would be better to use? eSATA is slower by almost half, but TrueNAS folks really don't recommend USB. My 4 ...