has anyone been using 4 TB drives with this dock? (i know the product description says 3 TB is the limit.)
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Yes. I am currently using the Uspeed dock with a Western Digital 4 TB WD Green SATA III 5400 RPM 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD40EZRX. I used the dock to connect to my Windows 7 machine via the eSATA port. When first hooked up the 4TB drive displayed itself in the Computer Management/Disk Management console where I partitioned it using the GUID Partition Table then formatted with NTFS. Properties shows capacity at 3.63 TB . Been using it for a week or so. Fast and no problems so far. Hope that helps.
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I'm running it with a 4 TB drive right now. Works great. I'm running Linux. It all just worked "out of the box" without needing drivers, Disk Manager, patches, or anything like that. You just have to remember to format your drive with "gpt" partition table, because the default ("msdos") partition table maxed out at 2 TB and will no longer work.
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Just as KrellSteel said, works fine once you use Disk Manager on it. I have a 4TB drive, a WD40EURX, and gave it a GUID partition with NTFS, and drive letter for convenience, and it's copying files like a champ as I type. Copying 200GB of data (5% of it's capacity) takes about 40 minutes.
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I tried to use this docking station with Windows XP like the description sez. It won't work. I had to load Win 7 and then it will recognize, initialize, and format 4TB. Incidentally, my Thermaltake eSATA socket docking stations WILL work with 4 TB if you have Win 7. Funny I thought Thermaltake had a 2 TB limit. Not true.
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I have not tried yet, I am not sure about it. I have got in touch with the technicians at USpeed for their answer. I might buy a 4Tb myself if it works.
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MANUFACTURER ANSWER: Thanks for asking! Our U3 dock should support a 4TB SATA drive. If you have an older dock you might need a firmware update: http://plugable.com/2013/03/05/usb3-sata-u3-firmware-update
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I have an old 120 GB laptop drive hooked up w USB, works fine. I see in the reviews, people have hooked up 3 and 4 terabyte drives.
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While I haven't tried the dock with that particular Seagate model, I haven't found any Sata drive that it has not worked for.
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Yes. I have Four 4TB drives in mine and hey all work fine. Drives must be partitioned as GPT (which is nothing unusual) in order to see all the available space.
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I haven't had any problems with any of the 3.5" drives I have tried. I think I have a Western Digital Green 1Tb in one and a 1.5Tb in the other at the moment (I have two, one for my main drive, the second for my backup).
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Not sure about 4TB. Works great with 3TB hard drives in a RAID 10 with my Mac Pro.
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I am trying this tonight. The box does have two external USB ports but the internal GoFlex dock looks to be a standard SATA connection. Ill let you know how it goes.
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will I loose all my data that is already on the 4GB, or is this an additional drive? I tried to use the Seagate 1TB external Computer drive, but it wouldn't work.
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Works fine w/1 TB every time, but will not do anything with a 4 tb. Tried different hd, different systems, different usb. No response with the larger drive.
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MANUFACTURER ANSWER: Thanks for asking. Yes that drive will work just fine in this docking station.
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I am migrating to the WD Red drives. I have the 3 TB versions and will start using the 4 TB versions as I upgrade. I had Seagate Barracuda 2 TB ST2000DM001's installed and they have been failing VERY consistently. I deployed the Seagate's at work in a DS1511+ and have had similar issues with them there. I am replacing them with WD Reds. I wanted the higher spindle speed of the Seagate's but to have them failing so much I'm never using them again. Thankfully I recovered before we had a catastrophic failure.
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I would't risk it. I bought this dock and connected 2 Seagate 3TBs. It initially worked, so I went ahead and back up ALL my data. The next day the dock kept getting disconnected and now my IMAC won't even mount the drives. I tried another dock and seems that the drives have been fried by the Thermaltake dock. There goes 2.5TB of data!
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Thank you. That seems to be the norm. I have a 5 TB i want to dock and cant seem to find anything
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Has anyone actually successfully converted one of the 5.25 bays to 3.5 for a hard drive? I have 9 hard drives and want to see if this would actually fit them all. Thanks
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Honestly, I only have 2 2TB drives installed and never had any problems since I first bought it! I don't see why it should not support 2 6TB drives! Hope this helps!
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While I haven't tried a drive larger than 6 TB, I would respect that limitation since it must be a consequence of the Blizzard's engineering and design. As drives get larger, I suspect that the engineering will keep up with the increasing size of large drives; but you may be limited to 6 TB today. I know that Seagate has recently come out with 8 TB "archival" drives, but 6 TB seems to be today's norm for max capacity drives for the time being