[geeks] Cheap Dell Servers

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 5:45 PM, nate at portents.com wrote:

>>> 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.

A SATA port multiplier is several ports combined into one.

It's still only able to do one drive per port.

It's a physical convenience.

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