Hey guys, I've got a client wanting a machine in a Silverstone SG05
case ( http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=sg05&area=usa
), and the current leading candidate for the mainboard is the Zotac
9300-ITX ( http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16642 ), the basic
objective being to cram as much power as possible (with a bit of an
eye toward value, he's held off on the 3Ghz core 2 Quad at least) into
as small a space as possible.
the snag that arises is, the SG05 has 1x slimline optical bay, 1x 2.5"
HDD bay and 1x 3.5" HDD bay
Client would _like_ an SSD as the boot drive in the 2.5" bay, a big
data storage disk in the 3.5" bay and a Blu-ray burner (!) in the
optical bay, however the Zotac mainboard only has two SATA ports (and
one ESATA on the back)
So, to make that config happen I need the Nvidia 9300M chipset to play
nice with port multipliers (and apparently that's quite hit and
miss?), AND a tiny port multiplier that'll run off the internal power,
or a USB to SATA convertor I can hang off the internal USB ports (and
power internally also.)
(the esata port is wanted for other uses, and so is off limits for one
of the internal drives, on top of that being a horrifically clunky
cabling job)
Suggestions?
I know I'm after something that's possible from a technical
standpoint, but it's something extremeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeely niche, so I'm
not hopeful, but maybe someone else on the list has some idea if I'm
barking up the wrong tree, or indeed barking up any tree at all?
TIA
-JB
- [H] SATA port multipliers? James Boswell
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