Has anyone tried this enclosure with disks larger than 3TB?
1563056
I had compatibility issues when I went to the 4TB, some of the 4TB's want work well with the older 3TB, make sure you check the firmware on your 3TB and 4TB if you need them to run JBOD and RAID should never be mixed. I had 3TB in this device and tried a newer 3TB with a different firmware / version. Didn't work. Never would see the full size of the disk.
1031951
As per the website, 2x3 tb can be use. So your 4tb don't look to be compatible.
951569
I have 5- 3.5" 3TB drives in mine. You could probably use the 5.25" bays to mount up to 2 additional 3.5" drives with some adapters.
1239947
With the Synology RAID option you can start with the 3TB drives and add larger ones later. You just can't anything of smaller size than the drives used to create the array.
1282261
I have several Seagate 4 TB drives plugged into my StarTech Hard Drive Enclosures, so 3 TB should be no problem.
952692
I had 2TB intalled on this enclosure. I think it will work with a bigger hard drive like 6TB.
1699564
Have had product in operation with 1 TB Seagate Berracuda disks for at least 4 years with no failures of the disks or the enclosure. I use it mainly for photo and home movie storage. I do some moderate streaming of music and video. I have been very pleased with this setup and the Synology GUI is easy to get around in (granted I don't do much advanced networking with it). If you go with it just make sure you get the correct drives (smaller 12mm laptop drives)
1712093
I haven't yet tried a 4TB drive, but I have used a 3TB drive with NTFS formatting with no problems.
599775
A usb enclosure has nothing to do w disk size. You could put any 2.5" SATA hard drive in there and ir will work. I use it for a 1 TB hdd also
2100672
I have actually tried it with a 2TB HDD and it worked fine. Loaded up with no issues. It should definitely work with a 3TB HDD, 1TB shouldn't make a difference. You would definitely enjoy it, i sure am.
1687484
Ronald, I have done both copied smaller drives to bigger 1GB to 3GB I have 2 of these enclosures and love them
1853216
Yes, I'm running the 8tb version and it has the full 8tb, but for some reason I think the device used the first drive closes to the power button first for storage in this setup, but yes it works!
1781109
Any vendor is fine. I put up to 4TB drives in this, so 3TB will definitely work.
2056894
Dear Sir,This is Millie from ORICO.I am so sorry for the trouble that we had made.this enclosure support 6TB drive.Please contact ORICO Customer Care Center for Firmware update.Kind regards,Millie
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.
410950
No I have not tried to use this with a 3.5 disk drive . Do not even have one any more.
430598
Yes, but honestly I wouldn't recommend it. Having a drive fail on that setup would kill you and the interface that your presented with on this device really limits the usability of anything over 2tb