Using SATA for USB 3

[watercannons]

Hi,

 

This is kind of a bizarre question, but I want know, are there anything that allows me to connect some kind of adapter for SATA to a USB 3 female port, where you would connect from the SATA port on the MOBO, and some sort of power cable to a USB 3 female port. I know there are plenty of PCIE to USB 3 female expansion cards, but I'm trying to heavily mod an Optiplex 790, and the 2nd PCIE slot will probably be blocked by a graphics upgrade. 

 

(So basically a PCIE to USB 3 expansion card, but with SATA instead of PCIE)

 

Thanks

[Mira Yurizaki]

There's nothing like that because SATA is a storage communication protocol, whereas USB is a generic data communication protocol.