Am Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 04:07:39PM +0100 schrieb antlists:
> On 01/07/2021 00:31, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Antlist made a similar suggestion using external USB, and I gave a more
> > detailed answer in reply to his mail.
> 
> I've got this ...
> 
> https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B072J52TR1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
> 
> It's eSATA not USB.

Which is very similar in function to the one I have, only mine is for
installation in a 5¼″ case slot. When I bought it years ago I was thing
about a desktop dock like yours, because that can also be used with my
laptop. But I found it neater to install it cleanly into my PC case. :-)


> It's worked fine for me, but no I haven;t used it much - I shall probably be
> using it a bit very soon as I finish building my new system...

When I was reading up on the differences between SAS and SATA (because some
enclosures and cases use a SAS backplane), one of the items was multipath
support: SAS can address several drives, SATA only one. So eSATA is limited
to a single drive per cable.

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