Connecting multiple hard drives

Hi all.

I have a question on storage methods. To many drives but not enough SATA ports on my board.
SSo what I want to do is try connect multiple drives with one SATA cable, Is that possible or not yet?
As far as I know SATA cables are point to point, but is there another way to connect multiple SATA HDD's on one SATA cable (Like IDE for example).
I have enough space in my case for all the drives and it gets irritating to switch cables everytime. Dont care much about transfer speed.

Thanks in advance.

No, not possible to daisy-chain(2 or more on one cable) with SATA.

You will have to get a PCI/PCI-Express SATA expansion card.

You can use a SATA port multiplier if your controller supports it. However, many controller don't support port multiplier since this is not a standard for SATA specification.

The safest external option is to get a multi bay NAS or enclosure (for enclosure, use USB 3.0 and/or eSATA connection to avoid bandwidth problem). Safest internal option is to buy PCIe SATA controller card.