Has anyone used this enclosure with hard drives of 5 TB or more? Or is 4 TB the limit
637965
I just have a 2 TB drive in it at the moment. If it says that 4 TB is the limit, you probably should respect that. I have found that docking bases tend to top out at 4 TB as well, so maybe that's the current limit.
637966
Thank you. That seems to be the norm. I have a 5 TB i want to dock and cant seem to find anything
1017184
According to the instructions it will only support up to 3TB, but there have been reports of people using 4TB drives... So, you could try it, but to be on the safe side ask the manufacture.
1341220
I use a 4TB drive in mine with Windows 7. It works great. Solid case. I love it.
47711
I just put a 3TB Seagate drive in one of these and it worked. One of my laptops had a weird issue, but other machines did not. TDMSERVICE.EXE consumed massive amounts of RAM (3+GB) a few times before it acted normal. A different laptop of the same make/model did not have the same problem. That first laptop has issues adding hardware anyways, so I don't think it's a combination of the enclosure and drive.
1648338
I personally have a 2TB installed, so i cannot speak for that. But i don't think it's an issue, since it's just a normal SATA to USB adapter, i don't think that there's going to be an issue with using a 3TB Drive or larger.
153311
I don't know if there is a limit but I have 3 4TB Seagate NAS drives in the Thermaltake 2533.
2005136
I have run 4TB drives in mine without issue. So up to 32TB for the 8 bay unit.
1594612
Not sure, I placed 2 2TB drives for a 4TB total and the unit performs fine. Very happy with the unit. Perhaps check the website to see what the approved drives it will accept.
96970
There is updated firmware to support 3TB drives in each drive bay. But I don't know about 4TB. It might work or need another firmware update.
1300867
Not sure, I put a 3tb in mine, but I also have a 4tb external connected to it. I don't see why it wouldn't accept a 4tb drive internally.
1864948
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!
911538
I have 4 1tb drives attached to this controller. I don't know if it has a size limitation.
1284270
No, this unit has 5.25" size itself and can be used for 3,5 hard drives only.
1712093
I haven't yet tried a 4TB drive, but I have used a 3TB drive with NTFS formatting with no problems.
1775463
Yes - I have several of 4TB Seagate drives as well as a number of 3TB and other sizes. I have not had any problems.
643055
If it accepts 3tb drives (which is does) then I see no reason for it not to accept 4tb drives. The limit is at 2tb.
806382
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.