I have a shuttle SN85G4 and i need lots of storage space. Due to the small size of the shuttle i have to have two SATA drives outside the case. After seeing this im pretty tempted to do something similar. 4 x SATA drives with usb or firewire adapters, going into a 4 port hub, then having a cable from that to my pc's firewire port. Would this work? 4 hard drives connected via adapaters to a usb 2.0 / firewire hub? Any one have any idea what the speeds would be like? The hdd's will be powered by a mini psu. I've managed to find a SATA -> USB 2.0 converter cable, but only in the states. Anyone know of anything available in the UK?
Generally, if you find enclosures like the Icy Box that do SATA to USB/Firewire the converter chips will be avaliable, but ive not seen anything for SATA unfortunately :/ You got a link to that cable? edit: URG! "sustained transfer rate of 35MB/s, max for firewire 400" Bleh. Shame you cant get something like an ESATA PCI adapter, then a SATA "hub" or something
use IDE mate you wont find sats any faster coz the firewire the q is how much do you want to spend? get that http://www.mobilityelectronics.com/expansion/pci/13slot/index.html hahah and then get sone pci to hard drives a 4 one might be better lol
