Good enclosure for 2TB drive?
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It's the size of a standard 3.5" hard drive, and the power dissipation is similar or lower than other 3.5" hard drives. Mine are in a Cooler Master 4 in 3 HDD Module Device - (STB-3T4-E3-GP), inside a Cooler Master Centurion 590 ATX Mid Tower Case Black - (RC-590-KKN1-GP), but there's a ton of external SATA enclosures that should work with this drive. Choose based on what interfaces you need (SATA, USB, Firewire). Most important, the WD20EARS needs to have 4kB blocks, properly aligned in your file system to perform efficiently.
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An internal SATA 3.5" or 2.5" (2.5" needs a bracket to hold the HDD) would be compatible with this system, Western Digital and Seagate are both ok with this system, thank you.
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I had 2TB intalled on this enclosure. I think it will work with a bigger hard drive like 6TB.
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If the 2 drives are individual and not set up in a raid, they will be read by this enclosure. Personally I have discontinued external enclosures and gone to bare drives with 2 of the dual docks. Cheaper and much easier stacking bare drives than a bunch of external enclosures cabled up. You can get plastic enclosures to store the hard drives.
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Hi Adrian, my 9mm hard disk (standard size 2.5 inch hard disk) seems to be the max this enclosure can take (it is a bit of a squeeze inside the enclosure). Anything fatter would be a problem I reckon. For any fatter hard disk I would go for the Vantec enclosure which specifically states support for 12.5mm thickness.
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Nope. The HP you are referring to only has 1 2.5 inch bay, so unless you modded that case there no place for another drive. a 1TB drive would double your capacity though. So I'd check that out.
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Hi Dwzyne, You would need the SANOXY® 2.5" USB 2.0 SATA Hard Drive HDD Case Enclosure as the drive you are using is a SATA drive not an IDE drive
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I just answered your question about the StarTech hard drive enclosure and then realized your question is about the enclosure. What kind of hard drive did you put in it?
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i dont' think you can fit 2 drives. anyway i use one external drive (usb 3.0) so that works well. but i i do recommend getting one sad
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I have a 2TB drive in mine. But with prices and for redundancy I would recommend dual 1 TB drives
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2 2TB drives. If you want to maximize storage space, choose a different raid configuration.
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No the drive is completely enclosed, but you should check to see if your unit is EIDE (ATA) or SATA (serial ATA) adapters are available should you need one.
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According to Sabrent website, for this model, the max is 2TB. If you wish holding more room, get the USB 3.0 model instead.
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Yes, the enclosure will work with any SATA drive and is backwards compatible with USB 2
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StarTech.com 2.5in Black eSATA USB External Hard Drive Enclosure for SATA HDD http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002NY9K1Q/ref=pe_175190_21431760_3p_M3T1_ST1_dp_1
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As someone mentioned, WD Purple is specifically designed for your exact purpose. As far as brands go, I have found WD to be extremely reliable.Search this one on Amazon if you still need a hard drive. At the moment a 2TB WD Purple is also under $100:WD 2 TB WD Purple SATA III Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM AV Hard Drive 2 sata_6_0_gb 64 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare or OEM Drives WD20PURX
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9.5mm is the thickest you'll be able to use. The highest capacity 9.5mm drives I found so far are Hitachi / HGST 1.5TB drives. Reportedly, there's a WD 2TB coming "soon".