Originally Posted By: drakino
And does the external Vantec dock plug into eSATA directly into the motherboard, or into some sort of eSATA PCI card?


Neither, actually. smile

There is an adapter plate that goes where a card would be fastened to the back of the computer case, but it does not go go into a motherboard slot. Instead it connects by cable directly to a SATA connector on the motherboard. The adapter plate is just a means of getting the SATA connection from the dock into the inside of the computer case, there are no electronics or anything.

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