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6 hard drives in your Mac. Will this work?
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...if it didn't work, why would they be selling it?
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I like chicken
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Meow Mix, Meow Mix
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I meant will it allow extra drives in the box...
OK, now I see from the company site
NewerTech� eSATA Extender Cable
that this is for running external drives.
Why would this be an advantage over any ordinary external drive setup? Is it because it plugs directly into the motherboard, thus bypassing the USB and Firewire ports? Does it make it possible to run a six disc RAID? Any other pluses or negs?
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SATA is just faster than firewire or USB2. It's major drawback is that not many people use it externally so it's not as universal as USB or firewire. The Mac Pro has 6 total SATA ports, but someone else will have to say for sure if they support hardware RAID (I'm thinking that it's an Intel chipset, then the capacity must be there for at least Intel Matrix RAID but I really don't know).
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I love lamp! I love lamp...
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