What is the maximum drive size of this unit? EDIT: It seems I didn't word this properly. I was looking for the maximum hard drive size as in GBs.
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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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Hi Adrian, Since this is eSata and USB 3.0 it shouldn't have any size limitations other than it has to be a 2.5 inch notebook hard drive. I currently have a 7mm tall SSD in one and it looks like there is still some space for 9mm HD. Don't think it has room for a 12mm HD. Hope this helps.
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I have 3 of these Sabrent drive enclosures and I populated two with 500GBs and one with 1TB. All three worked as I expected. BTW, I only tested them on USB 2.0 connections. I'm still waiting for my "GMYLE® ExpressCard 34mm to USB 3.0 Adapter (Dual Port)" to see if the USB 3.0 connection is any better. I currently do not have a machine with a "native" USB 3.0 interface. I have not tested these units using an SSD.
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I haven't tried anything that large. I do have a couple of them, but I have only used a 32g thumb drive.
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Amazon have been sending me the WD20EARS-00MVWB0!If you do buy it, please buy it thru my Amazon Store, its the same price and I get a small kickback from the sale.http://astore.amazon.com/brisperpag-20/detail/B002ZCXK0IGreat drive btw, use this for my main data partition and for an external backup drive on many servers.
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I dunno if it's a formatting thing, but I tried to plug in my portable 120GB external drive, and it blanked. My 1GB stick came up with a menu though, so there's gotta be a size limit somewhere, I just don't know where it it.
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My drive failed data transfers and was unusabe. It showed 256G but even 4G could be stored and retrieved before it was loosing files and crashing. Would not recomend unless you were interested in saying you have a 256G drive that you can show. Just dont use for anything you want to keep.
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No. I have a TB in mine. They are the same size no matter what size the GB/TB drive size is.
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Guy - Thank you for your response. Is it possible that it was the size (64G) as opposed to it being an SDHC? I read that it will only support up to 32G. Also I believe it needs to be formatted to FAT, but I could be wrong. It seems somewhat pointless if it only works with SD cards without the High Capacity as almost all of them are SDHC these days.
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Hello Justin. The drive is bigger than others but not so much. I can plug it with other devices without any problem.Regards.
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Given that there are conflicting answers to this question on Amazon, and I really wanted to know before purchasing a drive, I contacted Seagate. Here's their response: " Unfortunately, part of the information is not provided at all. The RPM of our Expansion drives are not a provided specification, meaning the unit can run from 5400 RPMs to 7200 RPMs. We have no way to know which is it. It is not a guaranteed specification." So, it's a crap shoot. And it matters.
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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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Thank you for asking and all the responses, that had me confused too. It looked like a small drive but the dimensions were off. I'm also looking at getting the hard case recommended but that dimensions listed would not have fit. I'm grateful to have found my question already answered.
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I'm not sure of the largest size drive. I have a 2TB drive in it. I'm only using USB 2.0 and it's very, very ssssslow. I would not buy it unless you have USB 3.0 capability.
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You should probably look up the manual.... the 16 GB (if I recall correctly) is not supported, only a maximum of 8 GB.
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This hard drive is compatible with sata 6gb? I hope your early reply thank you in advance.
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I know this is an old question. I am not exactly sure what the maximum capacity is, but I have 6TB total in my WHS (The 1GB original drive, plus 1x2TB and 2x1.5TB).
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Just checked one of mine (using a great tool called "Crystal Disk Info". Great Tool, just choose "Custom install" {not express} and opt out of anything else, it's just bogus ads)So the speed says 5400RPM and it says 8Meg of flash (RAM). The actual internal hard drive is: wd10jmvw-11ajgs1 Look it up for more specs on the drive inside. Enjoy!
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Sorry Rissa, not really sure on that. I just know 64GB is huge, probly bigger storage than any of us ever need, ha. I HaVe just sold this though & will be removing it. Thanks for contact tho, cheers:)