Re: Question about cabling up a SATA RAID . . .

Previously Stan Shankman <stantheman@xxxxxxxx> wrote:




> In setting up a SATA II RAID box, just how many cables must one run? One per
> drive (?) - for a big external RAID that seems kind of messy . Isn't there a
> way to setup an external SATA RAID with a single cable?

Depends on the RAID box and where the RAID controller is.

Arno


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