What is the maximum size of each attached USB drive? 3TB?
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To be honest I'm to sure because the most attached memory I added was 8gb, and that it was only to transfer data. I only used up a little more than 180gbs. I would imagine that you could though.
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the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of my space, oh, and of course ignore the fact that i just deleted 12TB of data the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of... » Read More the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of my space, oh, and of course ignore the fact that i just deleted 12TB of data « Show Less
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I believe that only an eSata drive can be added to expand storage, in a RAID 0 configuration. What the limit is on that doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but I'd assume at least 1TB. I haven't found any size limit for USB drives either, but since you can only copy to/from or backup/restore using USB drives that makes a huge drive of limited value anyway. I suspect the only way we'll know is to remove the internal drive, attach it to a PC, and see what filesystem the Mediashare uses. Sorry, wish I had a more helpful answer.
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Most USB devices are formatted FAT32 which only allows 2^32-1 bytes of data (4GB roughly speaking). To overcome this you'd have to format it in a file system that allows larger than 4GB files (like NTFS) or put the file into a spanning compressed file.
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The unit will hold 3 drives, either 3.5" or 2.5", with 3.5" drives at 4Tb then the max storage capacity would be 12Tb.
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3.5" drives, but can't say how useful it will be, haven't had a chance to try it yet.
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My drives stay circa 20-25F above ambient. The description notes 3 X 3.5 inch drives.
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Thank you for asking and all the responses, that had me confused too. It looked like a small drive but the dimensions were off. I'm also looking at getting the hard case recommended but that dimensions listed would not have fit. I'm grateful to have found my question already answered.
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Approximately 8 to 10 inches, no longer than a foot...not very long. You need to keep the external drive near the computer you are using.
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Same here: 750GB x 2. They're also not RAID 0, so you don't have one drive with 1.5TB, but rather a 750GB C: drive and a 750GB D: drive.
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While I have not tried a 3TB hard drive in this device I have used it with a 2TB drive and see no reason why a 3TB wouldn't work!
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Yes, I have the 2TB that comes installed, installed a 3TB drive and have a 4TB USB drive unpartitioned attached.
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Like all 3.5" drives this is powered by a plugpack. You can buy 2TB drives in 2.5" format which are powered by USB.
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Hello. I have tried USB 32 GB as maximum till mow, and it is working fine. No idea either bigger is ok or not.
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Assuming you mean "capacity" and not "physical size", I don't think so. I picked this up from the store, and returned it the next day after it failed to work with a 3TB WD Caviar Green drive, though it worked fine with a 1TB version of the same drive. I never did any additional research, so I don't know for sure, but it's probably limited to 2TB hdds, like most of the older external enclosures I've come across.
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You can configure the drive to be either 4 TB or 8 TB. The device itself only contains two 4TB drives.
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Hard drives are usually 3.5 inches in width. Almost all conform to a industry standard SFF-8301 3.5
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There are four internal 3.5" drive bays. There is, additionally, a 5.25" external drive bay that isn't used that some people use to hook up additional disks with an adapter. 4TB disks work in this system, if your operating system supports them. I've been particularly happy with WD Red disks in this chassis.
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The one I received was 3TB and don't have the box anymore to see what it said when i opened it! Sorry.