On 7 February 2014 15:01, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 2/7/2014 6:15 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > >> >the eSATA expander has its own PSU. the Microserver would just be > >> >powering the esata card, which is nothing. > >> > > > I don't suppose you have a link to one you've looked at already do you? > > something like this... > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816111177 > > Ah gotcha ... didn't realise you meant external... I was thinking of a bay along the lines of: http://www.sharkoon.com/?q=en/node/1824 or http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=151 I wonder what performance would be like through multiplexing the eSATA interface compared to buying a 4-6 port internal SATA card.