It's a slimline optical bay, I'm cursing that a little bit because it
kicks the system cost up a good chunk. a BR burner/everything reader
is £140, a slimline BR burner/BR+DVD reader is £206
I'll have a further look over the links you provided. :)
and Thankyou hugely good sir :)
On 10 Apr 2009, at 14:11, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
I just looked at that link to the case. Looks like a full size
optical bay so you won't need the slim sata cable adapter.
This first one is esata but appears to be the smallest and easiest
to implement
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=N-UTS225&cat=CCD
Finding internally powered usb2sata adapters is not as easy and
you'll probably have to do more investigating
http://www.beachaudio.com/Startech-Com/Usb2sata-p-114140.html?utm_content=reg&utm_campaign=usb2sata&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=froogle
http://www.satadrives.com/sata-to-usb-adapter-cable.html
http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?item=69928
lopaka
--- On Fri, 4/10/09, James Boswell <[email protected]> wrote:
From: James Boswell <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [H] SATA port multipliers?
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 2:27 AM
Thanks, that's a tremendous help :)
Any pointers on where to find a small usb to sata adapter that doesn't
require it's own power brick?
I've had a scout around and all I can find are kits intended to be
used
externally
On 10 Apr 2009, at 04:05, Robert Martin Jr. wrote:
I'd use a USB to SATA adapter off one of the internal usb headers for
the blu-ray drive. Use one of these to keep it tidy. You'll also
need a slim
sata to sata cable
http://cgi.ebay.com/12%22-305m-Slimline-SATA-Cable-Slim-Drive-CRX890S,AD7670S_W0QQitemZ130296426485QQcmdZViewItem
http://www.logicsupply.com/products/afap_082usb
I've done a few systems using zotac ITX mobos
lopaka
--- On Thu, 4/9/09, James Boswell <[email protected]> wrote:
From: James Boswell <[email protected]>
Subject: [H] SATA port multipliers?
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 5:05 PM
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
