However, those that are curious will have noticed that System Information reports 6 SATA fields.
In fact, there are 2 free SATA connectors on the motherboard.
They are hidden behind the power connector for the graphic card.
It would be entirely possible to connect cables to them, not to add internal disks, which would be complicated, but to transform them into external SATA ports in order to connect compatible external cases to it.
The advantage of external SATA drives compared to Firewire drives, even 800, is obvious. These disks don't need a converter, as a result the bandwidth and access times are greatly superior.
To make this simple, it would be necessary to get this sort of thing which our partner Macway sells, but with longer cables.
We are going to closely study the feasibility of this bidouille.
The presence of these two free connectors makes us all the more regret that Apple did not judge it useful to add these ports. Perhaps they preferred to favor FireWire 800.
