Should I buy an external enclosure or drive dock for the Seagate Barracuda LP 2 TB 5900RPM SATA 3 GB/s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive ST32000542AS-Bare Drive: What is the best solution: an external enclosure or drive dock?
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In my opinion, enclosure is a better option if you plan to "set it and forget it"
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MANUFACTURER ANSWER: Thanks for asking! Our U3 dock should support a 4TB SATA drive. If you have an older dock you might need a firmware update: http://plugable.com/2013/03/05/usb3-sata-u3-firmware-update
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The model for sale is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3160812AS 160GB Firmware 3.AHH. We hope this helps!
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I just answered your question about the StarTech hard drive enclosure and then realized your question is about the enclosure. What kind of hard drive did you put in it?
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An internal SATA 3.5" or 2.5" (2.5" needs a bracket to hold the HDD) would be compatible with this system, Western Digital and Seagate are both ok with this system, thank you.
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This system comes with a Seagate Barracuda 1000 GB hard drive. Model number ST 1000DM003 that should allow you to retrieve all the relevant information for this drive. FYI - I switched it out with a Crucial M500 240GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive. The response times are night and day difference. It takes less than 10 seconds to cold boot the computer to Windows 8 login with the solid state drive.
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This item is for converting a 2.5" drive into a 3.5" bay for use in a desktop computer internally. If you wanted to use this as an external drive as you asked, you technically could do this if you also bought an extra, external drive enclosure for a 3.5" drive. I have to ask though, why do that when you can just buy an external drive enclosure for a 2.5" drive instead of this Icy Dock + a 3.5 " drive bay and essentially double-converting it?
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I bought 2 units with 2 Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 7200 RPM 3.5-Inch drives 7 months ago. Both of the drives have been running 24/7 non stop without any issues.
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I use both WD and Seagate for storage - I have a Blue Face WD10 EARS model, I've had that for about 7 years, I abuse it daily. On my other system, I bought a low-speed (5400 rpm?) Seagate ST1000DL - Which got some nasty reviews on Amazon - But I've had that for 2 years and no trouble, it's only for storage so I don't need the speed. I don't have any SATA3 HDD's at all, I don't have any motherboards that support it. I'll have to get an Add-on Card
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Lisa, a better approach may be to just buy another dock for your IDE drives and this dock for your SATA drives. I don't know how many bays you have open, but I have a mini-tower and find having both is very convenient. Also, if your use of IDE is infrequent, there are several kits where you can convert IDE to USB and just plug your IDE drive in that way. Those kits are cheap too, $10-$15. I have this ICY DOCK you are looking at, and I love it as I do a lot of disk swapping. Good luck.
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Max supported size? Dimensionally, it fits every modern 3.5 inch drive I've tried. Gig/Terabyte wise, it doesn't care, the Serial ATA (SATA) data connectors pass through. If your drive will work without this dock, it should work with the dock.It's sort of like asking how fast a car can your garage handle. The garage doesn't care about speed, just if it will fit through the door.
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Max supported size? Dimensionally, it fits every modern 3.5 inch drive I've tried. Gig/Terabyte wise, it doesn't care, the Serial ATA (SATA) data connectors pass through. If your drive will work without this dock, it should work with the dock. It's sort of like asking how fast a car can your garage handle. The garage doesn't care about speed, just if it will fit through the door.
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I would go with the Seagate 1TB for the price. More space the better, and it is a very good price. I love Seagate drives, plus their DiscWizard in a great program.
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not sure what you mean by docking station, if you are just looking for additional storage look at http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FreeAgent-GoFlex-External-STAM3000100/dp/B004E3XP42/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1355890846&sr=1-4&keywords=goflex or http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup-Portable-External-STBU1000100/dp/B00829THO6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355890709&sr=8-1&keywords=seagate+amazon A
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Mine came factory refurbished in bubble wrap. Don't buy this new. Instead get a 1TB Seagate barracuda.
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Assuming you are looking for a desktop hard drive, you should be able to use any Serial-ATA drive that will fit in a 3.5" bay compartment. Right now, the "sweet spot" for getting the most bang for the buck is a 2TB drive - http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000DM001/dp/B005T3GRN2/ref=sr_1_7?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1403804113&sr=1-7
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Everything you need is included with regards to power. They won't leave you out in the cold.As for the SATA cable - none needed. The hard disk (as with all of these) plugs directly into a small control board inside of the enclosure. So, if you have a hard disk, they'll provide all the rest for you to have a working external drive.