View this article at: http://dev.macnn.com/articles/05/11/29/addonics.5x1.esata.pm Tuesday, Nov 29, 2005 10:35am Addonics ships 5x1 eSATA Po... Addonics today announced its 5x1 eSATA Port Multiplier (PM), which allows multiple drives to be connected to a SATA controller via a single eSATA port for expanded storage and high-speed 3GB/sec transfers. The Addonics PM fits inside the Addonics Storage Tower, its compact aluminum drive enclosure that allows users to mix and match multiple drive interfaces as well as hard drive or optical storage devices. The Adonnics PM is also designed to fit any standard SCSI enclosure that has 2 bays or larger and has a 50-pin Centronic SCSI connector on the back plane. The Port Multiplier can be set up to support each drive individually or as a RAID or JBOD (just a bunch of disks). Using multiple PMs, the Addonics 4-Port eSATA controllers can support as many as 20 SATA hard drives via a single controller. It is available for $90.