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EDA500 connecting directly to PC
Before I order the EDA500 Expansion Chassis 5-Bay I want to verify if I can connect the EDA500 directly to my PC with Windows 10. Can anybody help me with this? Is there any compatibity list wit...
The combination EDA500 and StarTech.com 2-port SATA 6 Gbit/s PCI Express eSATA (PEXESAT32) WORKS!!!
But if you connect the second EDA500 to the second port of the PCI, it does NOT work.
Good luck to you all.
Thanks for the responses!
It's designed to be connected to specific ReadyNAS models.
I've never heard of anyone whose used it with a Windows PC.
Thanks, So, I understand it is maybe possible. I think the EDA500 is like a dockingstation, it should be possible. Any feedback if I am wrong.
Certainly Netgear did not design it to be a general esata expansion, so I wouldn't go as far as saying it "should be possible"
I suspect the port on the PC would have to support the sata Port Multiplier functionality at the very least..
My PC is connected with a USB 3.0 cable with the Belkin aluminium 4-poorts USB 3.0-hub, this hub is connected with 4 USB-drives and my PC can see 4 different USB-drives.
Why shouldn't see the EDA500 5 different HDD's if I connect the EDA500 (with 5 HDD's) directly to a SATA-port on the motherboard?
Or is there a esata-lock implented by Netgear? The latter I couldn't read anywhere.
Caesarea wrote:Thanks, So, I understand it is maybe possible. I think the EDA500 is like a dockingstation, it should be possible. Any feedback if I am wrong.
Why do you insist that "it should be possible".. Netgear could have designed it that way, but did not. Might it still work that way in spite of not being designed to do so? Yes. Should it? I wouldn't go that far. Since there are ReadyNAS devices other than those listed as compatible with the EDA500 that have an eSATA port, I think it safer to assume that there is some kind of limitation enforced until somone proves otherwise.
Not every eSATA port supports port multiplication, so that could also be a limitation for your use. USB and eSATA are very different and your assumption that one should work like the other is not a good one.
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