The Fujitsu Futro S900 was built up to 2013, and only had one SATA port from the factory. [Jan] wanted to add another as this would make the device more useful as a network attached storage server.

A combo port that connects to external SATA (eSATA) drives and USB devices with cables up to two meters long. The eSATA USB Hybrid Port (EUHP) also eliminates the external power cable by supplying ...

For example, an eSATA port multiplier allows multiple external SATA drives to be connected to one eSATA port on the computer. Also called a "port expander," another example is a USB hub ...

This mini ITX NAS board with up to Intel Core 3 N355 has four 2.5 GbE LAN ports, 6 SATA connectors, and two M.2 2280 slots ...

The SAS Initiator Controller IP Core provides an interface to high-speed serial link replacement for the parallel SCSI attachment of mass storage devices. Maximum supported bandwidth is 48 Gbps. The ...

2 sockets, so if you need more storage once they're all in use you either have to use a PCIe expansion card or, more sensibly, the SATA ports on the board. Cheap SATA SSDs all use QLC NAND memory ...