On 02/13/11 1:21 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > I'm trying to build a dense eSATA enclosure with say 16 or 24 drives :) thats a stunningly bad way to go about it. A) if you want JBOD, use a SAS/SATA enclosure with a SAS host card, as SATA doesn't support multichannel multiplexing. or B) if you want a SAN, use iSCSI or FCoE or something. or C) if you want a NAS, use NFS. this is the best solution for many applications.