Originally Posted By: robricc
Other than the things mentioned in the FAQ, using a USB to SATA adapter inside the empeg is probably going to be easier/smaller than converting the existing IDE interface to SATA.

Not really. Buy a SATA -> IDE adapter and install it. That'll be a lot easier than hacking in USB host and adding a USB -> SATA adapter as well.

The overhead of running ethernet over USB with the empeg will be high. The empeg hardware doesn't do DMA.