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 ...

Many newer boards should support port multipliers. Its a fairly standard option for Sata II controllers. The only downside is that 4 or 5 drives are sharing one port.

Hi all,I have been trying to find the answer to this question for many days now, to no avail: does the 1210 (or any Areca SATA PCIe card, for that matter) support SATA port multipliers?My plan is ...

Addonics Announces Hardware Port Multiplier – Lets You Connect Up To Five SATA Drives To Any SATA Port SAN JOSE, CA (September 14, 2009) -- Addonics Technologies (www.addonics.com) today ...

The port multipliers can turn one SATA port into five ports that can support both optical and storage drives. The port replicators can also support RAID arrays and have an integrated buzzer to ...

The IntelliProp IPP-SA128A-PM (SATA Port Multiplier with Sandbox) device is an IP core that provides SATA Port Multiplier functionality with support for up to 15 SATA storage devices. The IP core is ...

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 ...

Addonics Technologies today announced two new members of its Port Multiplier family, both designed to support SATA 3.0 6Gbps and greatly enhance the storage capabilities for a wide range of ...

Fremont, Calif.—Exar Corp. entered the storage market with a pair of SATA/SAS port multipliers. The XRS10L140 and XRS10L240 are the first in a series of storage devices called Xstor that are designed ...

Short of storage space for your digital files and backups, Addonics has a new product for you. The company has announced a new hardware port replicator for SATA ports that comes in two styles.

Not even five drives attached to a simple port multiplier and operating at maximum bandwidth would fill the massive 3-Gbit/s SATA II pipe. Thus, if SATA could cascade port multipliers, it could be a ...

The SeriTek 5-Bay SATA Port Multiplier enclosure can hold up to five hot-swappable Serial ATA drives, each with a transfer rate up to three gigabits per second.