Does the dock allow you to plug in external hard drives into the USB port? Will a 1TB drive work?
626057
I just tried it. It works. I can see the Toshiba 1TB driver although some video files cannot be opened on RT due to not been supported.
626058
mine reads usb drives and external mouse...I'm sure it will read your external HD
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MANUFACTURER ANSWER: Thanks for asking. Yes that drive will work just fine in this docking station.
1555909
I tried to plug in an external 320GB hard drive and it didn't work at all. The enclosure had its own power supply and I have plugged it into other USB Hubs before, but this one didn't even recognize it. don't know if it was defective or a limitation of the design, but I am returning it considering that I bought this Hub to swap multiple external hard drives and thumb drives. Hope this helps.
1940478
Yes, works perfectly. No additional equipment needed for the drive itself, but for data transfer from your existing hard drive you'll need a dock or drive case. The startech.com dock works great but I'm sure there are other options which might be cheaper.
1723966
Yes. It works. I'm using a USB 3.0 hub, hard drives, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, printers, videos ports. All USB ports are 3.0. This dock works very well!
1180511
Don't think so.You can purchase an external docking station for around $30.00 that will accept both sata and IDE drives. The one I have will COPY the IDE to the satadrive. Check Amazon ans ebay for different brands and prices.Hope this helps
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I am using this dock with my Seagate BackUp Plus 3TB unit. I took my 3TB hard drive from the "Back Up Plus's" base and directly plugged it to the Home Base NAS Dock and it fitted correctly. I was using my BackUp Plus connected to my Asus RT-AC66U Router's USB port and can easily access to it via internet anywhere inthe world, and now I can do the same with connecting it to my lovely Asus Router's WAN/LAN port. This way you can setup a new Seagate GoFlex Access account and secure your files while they are all accessible via internet. Nice job with the interchangeable docks and drives Seagate.. well done. I am using this dock with my Seagate BackUp Plus 3TB unit. I took my 3TB hard drive from the "Back Up Plus's" base and directly plugged it to the Home Base NAS Dock and it fitted correctly. I was using my BackUp Plus connected to my Asus RT-AC66U Router's USB port and can easily access to it via internet anywhere inthe world, and now I can do the same with connecting it to my lovely Asus Router's WAN/LAN port. This way you can setup a new Seagate GoFlex Access account and secure your files while they are all accessible via internet. Nice job with the interchangeable docks and... » Read More I am using this dock with my Seagate BackUp Plus 3TB unit. I took my 3TB hard drive from the "Back Up Plus's" base and directly plugged it to the Home Base NAS Dock and it fitted correctly. I was using my BackUp Plus connected to my Asus RT-AC66U Router's USB port and can easily access to it via internet anywhere inthe world, and now I can do the same with connecting it to my lovely Asus Router's WAN/LAN port. This way you can setup a new Seagate GoFlex Access account and secure your files while they are all accessible via internet. Nice job with the interchangeable docks and drives Seagate.. well done. « Show Less
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The good news is that the connector in side the dock is a standard SATA port. The bad news (for me) is that a full size desktop HD wont fit. I had to use Sabrent USB-DSC5 Serial ATA or IDE 2.5-/3.5-Inch to USB 2.0 Cable Converter Adapter with Power Supply to connect my HD. Now I guess I look for a cheap laptop HD....Let me know if I can do anything else for ya.
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I'm not sure because after purchasing the dock I sent it to our IT specialist and he told me that the drive itself was damaged and the new dock wouldn't have worked anyway. Thanks, and good luck - Gary D.
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As far as size goes, it is not the data storage capacity as that is really only limited by the OS you are running and way you configure the drive (e.g. 1 GPT w/ 3-2TB partitions). On the physical side, the dock accepts 1-3.5" HDD, which is the standard size for desktops. If you want to use a 2.5" HDD, which are used in laptops and "portable" external HDD enclosures, you would not want to use this model of the Icy Dock. On the functional side, this enclosure has kept my HDD running at ambient temperature, even when under a prolonged writing session.
2010391
That's one of the reasons I bought the docking station. I lost my Imac in a house fire but they recovered my hard drive. It works great for me as well as the portable 1 gig hard drive I had. I recommend it!
958422
Any external USB hard drive can be used via the USB ports, the seagate HD is necessary to for the "convenient" slide in interface (it still leaves both USB ports open)
205948
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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Yes. But not all external drives will work. I tried plugging in a 3TB drive and it did not get recognized. 1 TB one I tried worked fine.
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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 have an external USB hard drive connected and it works fine. You can even play back files from the USB drive. I have a 1 TB external drive.
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Yes it does. There is an adapter port and cables for the EIDE on the front of the dock and the slot on the top supports both 2.5 and 3.5 sata drives. I own three of them and am very satisfied with the product. I use them for my computer repair business