2 esata ports, 4 drives?

[Moredhel]

I need another 4TB of storage, but I have a shuttle and am using the 3 drive slots in it, along with all 8 USB ports.

What I need is something that uses the 2 eSata ports on the back. Ideally I'd like to buy standard 1TB drives and put them in a 2 drive eSata caddy, but I can't find anything like that, does anyone know of one?

I've seen those Western Digital 2TB eSata things, but that's so much more expensive that way, and ideally I'd like to be able to use the drives as internals if I get a bigger tower in the future, I'm not sure if you can take the Western Digitals apart to get the drives out.

Any suggestions?

[edit]
Network attached is also not an option, it can't use Ethernet.

 

[semi-pro waster]

I don't know for certain but I wouldn't imagine you can, at least not if you want to use the drives as separate 1tb volumes, simply because SATA is designed to be one channel - one drive. If the drives are Raided together in some way then partitioned into two then you could do it but that is quite a bit of extra hassle I suppose.

 

[AbsenceJam]

SATA is designed to be one channel - one drive.

SATA supports port multipliers so you can have up to 15 drives on a channel sharing the 3Gb/s. Most host adaptors support it and the port multipliers themselves start at around £30 for 5 drives > 1 cable..

 

[Breezy]

Two of these?

http://www.akasa.co.uk/akasa_english/spec_page/storage/spec_ak_enp2ston_bk.htm

 

[Moredhel]

Two of these?

http://www.akasa.co.uk/akasa_english/spec_page/storage/spec_ak_enp2ston_bk.htm

Erm, they're not 2TB. I've ordered one of the Western Digital 2TB MyBooks now, I'll order another next month.

 

[NickK]

You can daisy chain Firewire 800.. only need one port then (or go for two ports but with two drives on each chain instead).

On my MacBook Pro connecting the same 1TB MyBook Studio gives better results with Firewire than it does via ExpressCard/34 eSATA connection.

 

[Breezy]

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