Can you have 1 active eSATA and 1 active SATA or do they have to be either all external or all internal?
1254164
There are jumpers on the board to configure any combination of two active ports. So yes, you can have one of each.
1254165
There are 2 jumpers on the board that allows you to choose. You can have 1 int and 1 ext.
217652
Yes you can. The eSATA end connects to an eSATA port, the other end is a regular SATA plug. This is usually used to connect to an external hard drive for backup or file transfer. It doesn't matter if the drive you connect it to is in the computer or outside the computer. As long as the drive has power you are good to go.
1864509
I just plugged 1ssd and one sata drive. I think two ports are hight speed but I dont remenber. whats the plan with that huge setup?
515638
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.
515639
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.
518448
Yes. Two ESATA cables required.This device contains two Sil3726/3826 SATA Port Multipliers each for 4 HDD.
2090202
No additional power to the card is needed as both esata and sata drives have separate power connectors. This is not a USB card.
1370503
The ports on the front of the case (2x USB 3.0, 1x eSATA, 2x USB 2.0, HDD Dock) function similar to a USB Hub. In that all of those ports connect to the motherboard via only one regular SATA cable. So to answer your question it connects to a regular SATA port not an eSATA port.
2035796
I have a 1TB drive in it currently hosting my VMware ESXi Server. And it has I believe 3 or 4 sata ports on the mother board if I remember correctly. Because I have an sata dvd drive and two hdds in it currently with one other sata port available if I remember correctly.
451562
eSATA just means "external"SATA. Any SATA hard drive can be connected to an enclosure that has an eSATA connector on the outside of the enclosure. It could even be a solid state drive except they don't make 3.5 inch solid state drives!
381623
I don't see why not. I used to have a SATA drive in an external enclosure, formatted for Windoze and used as an eSATA drive. It worked for quite a while 'til the drive failed.
404781
The USB 3.0 chip-set supports sATA, so, no they are internal sATA ports for expansion drives not pass through for the EsATA.
250878
Unfortunately, this cannot work as a stand alone server or connect to eSATA cables. Think of it a place to put additional hard drives when your computer chassis runs out of space inside. You still have to connect the drives to the motherboard inside, so you'll need long (internal-type) SATA cables to exit the chassis and connect to the hard drives in this little rack. There is no eSATA connection on it.
1667715
I have hooked it up to a esata enclosure with 4 drives and it worked with no problem.
1292619
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.
220206
You can add up to 2 mSATA drives which are SSD technology, they just go into specific mSATA slots instead of a regular SATA slot.
2232203
Short answer, No, due to port expansion eSATA. Longer answer, you wouldn't want to if you could, with double (or worse) data traveling on a single wire, performance would be poor, and it would burn up from constant multi-drive activity (which is the likely reason that the RAID version of this was discontinued)