[geeks] The new IPC/LX, from Dell?

[nate at portents.com]

> and the two eSATA ports give you some serious expansion options).

eSATA has a higher peak throughput, but two eSATA ports means two eSATA
devices (assuming the eSATA chipset doesn't support port multipliers), vs.
FW800 which supports up to 63 devices.  The most recent drive generations
do have real-world sustained transfer rates that exceed the peak transfer
rate of FW800, so you might start to notice some performance differences
vs eSATA now, so it's a matter of a bit faster vs. larger number of
devices supported (a Mac Mini with 60 2TB hard drives hooked up would be
some "serious expansion").

- Nate