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[nate at portents.com]

>> How many drives can you fit on a normal SATA bus?
>
> As I understand it, SATA is not a bus but a point-to-point technology,
> so the closest-to-correct answer is "one".

"One" is true except when using SATA port multipliers.  Then the answer
becomes 15, though 15 is not a practical way to divide the bandwidth of a
single SATA port.  The other stipulation is that the SATA host controller
must support a SATA port multiplier.

- Nate