[geeks] Cheap Dell Servers

[Francois Dion]

On Feb 6, 2008 5:45 PM,  <nate at portents.com> wrote:
> >> How many drives can you fit on a normal SATA bus?
> >
> > As I understand it, SATA is not a bus but a point-to-point technology,
> > so the closest-to-correct answer is "one".
>
> "One" is true except when using SATA port multipliers.  Then the answer
> becomes 15, though 15 is not a practical way to divide the bandwidth of a
> single SATA port.  The other stipulation is that the SATA host controller
> must support a SATA port multiplier.
>
> - Nate

And the OS too. Solaris doesn't like those at all.