Will this enclosure be able to handle a 1TB SATA hard drive? Thanks! ---Tom
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As long as it is a 2.5" hard drive, yes. That is what I have in mine, a Segate 1TB 2.5" hard drive. Hope it helps. Dan
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I tried an HGST 1TB drive in this enclosure and it worked just fine using one USB plug of the Y adapter cable that comes with it.I also tried it with a Samsung 840evo 1TB SSD drive and that works fine in it too.
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Hello Tom....I'm not sure... I'm using it on a 500GB sata II.... But since it is USB 3.0 I don't think why it wont handle it. Anyway.... Read my post... The enclosure itself is very nice but for some reason the deive keeps disconnecting and reconecting..... I think it is a connector design issue.
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As long as it is a 2.5" hard drive, yes. That is what I have in mine, a Segate 1TB 2.5" hard drive. Hope it helps.Dan
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it depends on if you are running a solid state drive or standard platter format. It has a built in SSD mount on the base of the enclosure, Or 7 bays. I cant hype this case enough.
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No it won't support 4TB drives. According to the specs it will support 3TB.
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It should be - I would be very surprised it wasn't! This is a standard enclosure for 3.5" SATA disk drives, and the WD drive you are asking about is a standard 3.5" SATA disk drive. Any modern 3.5" SATA drive should be fine with this enclosure.
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If your old hard drive is the 2.5 inch laptop size hard drive and have a SATA 1, SATA 2, or SATA 3 connector, then it should work.If your old hard drive is from a desktop, (3.5 inch ), it is too big for this enclosure.SATA connectors have a combination 7 pins for data separated by a spacer for 15 pins for power. Wikipedia have a nice pic of the SATA connector that this enclosure will support. Hope that helps you.
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I can't really answer that as I have never considered it. I would like to say no, but then again, anything is possible. Sorry, that's the best I can give you. I will say that is is probably one of the best external HD enclosures I have every had. If it wasn't so expensive, I would buy another one.
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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.
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Depends upon your OS. Most new OS can handle it. You also need a certain sort of connector to a motherboard that handles the SATA spec.
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Yes, it works with any SATA device, the enclosure is for any DVD/CD/Blu-ray device, but any SATA HDD will work, size would be a little big bigger than enclosures for HDD, but will work anyway.
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I believe the drive I installed in it was 1TB. Actually, as long as it's a 2.5 inch drive, the capacity, I believe, is irrelevant.
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If your hdd is a 2.5 inch sata II type, it should work. I havent tried a sata I hdd.
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Not without an enclosure. Power and SATA 6 connector (standard SATA cable is fine) are still needed. Plus the adapter for the smaller unit since it will not fit into a standard hard drive bay But the possibility is there, although you are not using for what the unit is best suited. Speed on a laptop or desktop.
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I used it to enclose a seagate 2tb drive and no issues with it. Shouldnt be a problem as ling as the drive is blank first
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The connector/size is the same. Not sure whether the controller chipset in the enclosure has backward support for SATA 1 though.
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SATA is backwards compatible so it should be fine. In fact, if you are replacing a plater drive it should be faster even with the 1.5 Gb/sec bottleneck.
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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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The size matches, and a 1" thick drive fits, too. The enclosure accepts SATA drives only, not IDE drives. Please verify that.