Sonnet SATA - eSATA Extender Cable for Mac Pro Computers

When it comes to supporting additional storage capacity, the pre-Nehalem Mac Pro has hidden potential - it's behind the fan assembly. Two extra SATA connectors sit on the logic board, just out of view and ready for you to connect more drives. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to install additional drives inside the Mac Pro-fortunately, that doesn't matter. Many PCs also have unused motherboard SATA connectors. Sonnet's eSATA Extender Cable enables you to connect two external hard drives to the unused SATA ports on your computer's logic board and take full advantage of its built-in storage capabilities.

Sonnet's eSATA Extender Cable simply plugs into the your computer's spare SATA connectors and extends them to the back, where you can easily connect up to two external hard drives (Mac Pro and Windows motherboard SATA neither supports drive enclosures with port multipliers, nor the capability to hot-swap drives). Since the eSATA Extender Cable is not a host adapter card, it's a great solution for power users needing all their computer's PCI Express bus bandwidth for other interface cards. Operation is plug-and-play, and detailed installation instructions are included for original Mac Pro computers as well as the early 2008 revision, but not the early 2009 (Nehalem). Note that the ports are fitted in front of one of your PCI-Express slots, so while this is not a PCI-Express card it does effectively take up a slot.

Please note, this product is not suitable for the Mac Pro 2009 (Nehalem), since this model dropped the two additional SATA ports on the logic board.