I bought myself a NexStar 3 USB 2.0/eSATA enclosure (dislike it, but local Calgary computer stores suck, or I haven't found the good ones yet). <BR><BR>What led me to this is firewire disappearing, ...

The XRS10L220 provides a SATA II port selector and port multiplier operating at 3.0 and 1.5 Gbits/s and addresses two SATA devices with a fail-over path from two hosts. The XRS10L210 supports ...

Port Multipliers can combine up to 5 SATA hard drives into one eSATA connection. The 5 drives can be set up as individual drives, as RAID set or with JBOD to become one large hard drive depending on ...

Quite a few consumer level (Non-Server platform) motherboards are including eSATA ports on them. I wonder, and have not been able to find, do they support port multipliers necessary for eSATA arrays?