Will this work with two computers connected to one high capacity hard drive?
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Yes, I'am transfering a USB hub w/3 high capacity hard drives (2TB), and a wired USB mouse between a WinXP computer and a Win7 computer on this USB share switch. The monitor, PS2 keyboard, and speakers on a KVM switch. Works great!
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i believe yes ,i connected a digital radiography sensor and worked with no problem, so it can handle an external drive easily
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If your box appears as a single drive,maybe. be aware that this adapter will change the format of your drive and although you can still read it, it might not work in your situation. The manual not too clearly states that it doesn't work with USB hubs, and if your drive enclosure treats the two drives in that way, it won't work. Back everything up first, and be prepared to reformat your disks if it doesn't work.
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Alex,The answer to your question is yes. Make sure both drives are the same size and same make, the drives must be identical.Earl
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This is just a hard drive with a USB connection. There should be no conflict or issue if your computer has USB port.
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I doubt it would work at all, it does not have the four pin slots to power the hard drive, but for the price, and if you're courageous enough to, it wouldn't hurt to try.
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Yes it will work. I'm using it in this configuration with 2 Seagate 6TB drive. Seems like you will have full speed up to 4 drives then half of it up to 8 drives.
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No. They don't see each other's drives. what you can do is to create an array on each of them and then in the OS use them as a single drive.
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I doubt it. I am not able to make it work with very many drives. I have gotten it to work with 1 WD 320 drive, but almost all others I have tried it won't talk to or requires that I format them every time I try and use them.
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Yes it will, I use 500gig and 1 TB hard drives on my laptops. If your system is already loaded you can image the drive.
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Yes and you will have to set the pins with a jumper for recognition of a second drive and plug it into the IDE cable as the second, you might have to unplug something. then copy the drive *.* and you've duplicated it.
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I am just about 100% certain that you cannot plug this directly into a computer. It's not a mass storage device like any kind of external hard drive. If the three different workstations talk to each other on the network, might as well have them talk to the Synology NAS (Network Attached Storage) using the network.
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You can link two hard drives together via a "KVM" switch. That way, you have the best of both worlds... two computers! The KVM switch allows you to switch back and forth to each computer. The switch also accommodates your mouse/keyboard and wireless Internet.
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I use the cable to transfer files between a PC and an external Hard drive As long as you have a usb connection on each device it should work.
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Should be fine, this is a hardware connection to the Hard Drives there is no software or drivers to load.
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Hmm.. not sure.. theoretically it should work but I didn't want to chance it. So I took my separate external 2TB drive and connected it and it works perfectly
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I have not tried it, but it should be fine. It doesn't care what SATA drive you plug in really, it's up to the OS to figure that out anyway.
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I don't believe you can connect it to serve several computers unless you are willing to connect/disconnect cables regularly. I use it solely to store HD videos and it works great for that.