Within five years of replacing PATA, SATA represented 99% of the desktop PC market share. While SATA was the standard for many years, eventually it created a bottleneck for faster storage.

The Fujitsu Futro S900 was built up to 2013, and only had one SATA port from the factory. [Jan] wanted to add another as this would make the device more useful as a network attached storage server.

The SATA Port Multiplier contains four specific blocks. The Host Port contains a SATA Device IP core and connects to the PC. Frames are transferred to the Bridging logic and if required the Customer ...

Depending on the form factor, SATA SSDs can use either an M.2 slot or cable header on the motherboard. Universal Bus (USB): USB drives connect to an available port on the PC. These drives are ...