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<blockquote data-quote="gxtracker" data-source="post: 58265" data-attributes="member: 14004"><p>Yes. SATA is a point-to-point connection so you cannot split 1 SATA connection to accommodate 4 SATA drives.</p><p></p><p>For a media server, you might want to look at just building a small, low power server that only acts as storage for media - and connect it with something like a 1000mbps network connection. Im building a small media server that will house 6 HDD all connected to a VIA EPIA board connected to a raid 5 PCI controller. with the drives in power saving mode (IE, not spinning) the whole system will consume < 20W of power.</p><p></p><p>The connection is then made to my network through a 1000mbps switch.</p><p></p><p>The other option you could to for is Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), but that will be a more expensive option.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gxtracker, post: 58265, member: 14004"] Yes. SATA is a point-to-point connection so you cannot split 1 SATA connection to accommodate 4 SATA drives. For a media server, you might want to look at just building a small, low power server that only acts as storage for media - and connect it with something like a 1000mbps network connection. Im building a small media server that will house 6 HDD all connected to a VIA EPIA board connected to a raid 5 PCI controller. with the drives in power saving mode (IE, not spinning) the whole system will consume < 20W of power. The connection is then made to my network through a 1000mbps switch. The other option you could to for is Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), but that will be a more expensive option. [/QUOTE]
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