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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.
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.
I guess the EDA500 eSATA port has a port-multplier functionality. So maybe I can combine the Startech® 2 Port PCI-Express eSATA Controller Adapter Card (PEXESATA2) with the EDA500?
I guess the EDA500 eSATA port has a port-multplier functionality. So maybe I can combine the Startech® 2 Port PCI-Express eSATA Controller Adapter Card (PEXESATA2) with the EDA500?
Maybe being the key word.
This isn't an intended use of the EDA500, and so far no EDA500 owner has chimed in to say whether it works or not.
@Caesarea wrote: So, should I try and update you? Or should I stop trying to use the EDA500 like I want to use as a dockingstation?
I think there are other people here who would like to know if this works. So if you choose to do a risk buy, please do post back.
Note that none of the folks posting on this thread work for Netgear (the Netgear folks who are active here haven't commented).
BTW, one of the EDA500 bays isn't electrically connected to the SATA bus - it is intended to hold a spare. So it's really a 5-bay unit with a storage slot.
