Hello,can 2 different sized hd,s (500 gb & 1tb) be used in the same desk top computer. Thanks
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As long as you've got another SATA cord on your PSU and MoBo, the answer is "yes."
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Yes. I have had a computer had a 500GB plus a 1.5TB. And another with 2 SSDs which are relatively small volume and a 2TB HD. As long as you have the power and connectors you are free to add in as many of any size as you want.
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Michael, I am not sure, but I beleive it might. The vendor website should be able to anser that question. I am currently using 2TB dirves. The thing that caught me was I tried to use the 2TB drives with the T5C plugged into my XP computer and that did not work. The operating system of the conputer driving the T5C must be capable of supporting the drive size. When I changed to a Windows 7 computer driving the T5C, all was good.
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If your desktop machine is the same as mine, you can add another drive in the removable slot. It must be a sata drive.
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It requests a wd red nas drive if the hard drives you have are nas drives I dont see why they wouldn't work the two disks do not need to match in size
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Regarding use of multiple sized drives; you should not only use the same size, but the same brand and model if possible to avoid issues. The only configuration that this doesn't apply/mean as much to could be JBOD (Basically just one big data dump w/no redundancy). Data gone is gone:)
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I bought mine long before 2TB HDDs existed; I suspect this enclosure might not support a drive of that size. Sorry I can't assist.
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Yes, you can. That's the main reason I bought it. Just make sure your HD is 2TB or less. It works great!
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You can use regular 2.5" HDDs but you'll want to pay attention to the thickness of the drive. I went with a WD Red 1TB. I don't have the article handy but there is a good writeup out there on the max thickness and even how to mod it for thicker drives.
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I installed mine in my desktop machine and it works great. I liked it so much I purchased another one for my laptop and it works there as well. The only catch is that you laptop has the space, check and see if what is already in there is a 2.5" HD, if so then it should be no problem.
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you most certainly can. I have this in my regular desktop , the only limitation would be if you are using an old system that does not support large drives.(over 2TB) but anything built or bought in the last 5 years should be just fine.
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Depends entirely on the storage capacity of the two computers are how much space is taken up on both. I personally use the 1 tb drive for just my 500gb MacBook Pro.
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Yes and No because to HD makers 1 TB= 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. To a computer 1 TB = 1,024,000,000,000 bytes. So it will seem like your losing capacity but it is still 4 TB
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That should not be a problem where the hardware is concerned. However, keep in mind your partitioning scheme. You will want to do a GPT partition table (as opposed to MSDOS partition table) with any partitions over 2TB. How you go about that will depend on the OS that you are using.
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You should have no problem with this HD. You may wish to partition it though.
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1 terabyte is more than adequate for home use. This would allow two full copies of an entirely filled 500 Megabyte hard drive.
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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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Way too much information. Short answer: Yes. Long answer: You already have a 5400 RPM SATA drive, so all you're doing is upgrading the size.