I have 2x1TB external drives with a dead enclosure. Can't be read with individual enclosures, must be read together. Will this work?
1303011
I don't think this will work. I assume your dead enclosure had a RAID configuration (which will require the disks to be read together). This unit does not do RAID.
1303012
If the 2 drives are individual and not set up in a raid, they will be read by this enclosure. Personally I have discontinued external enclosures and gone to bare drives with 2 of the dual docks. Cheaper and much easier stacking bare drives than a bunch of external enclosures cabled up. You can get plastic enclosures to store the hard drives.
1667715
I have hooked it up to a esata enclosure with 4 drives and it worked with no problem.
1956221
There's nothing OS-specific about the enclosure, anything with eSATA "port multiplier" support should work fine.
328969
Only 1 drive can be recognized at a time. You can fill one then remove it and attach another. I use a USB switch which only powers one port at a time. This allows me to plug in multiple external disc at a time and switch back and forth as needed.
766020
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.
1175066
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.
936429
You can keep your drives as is. There is no hardware RAID so it will read four drives independently.
2247618
I haven't tried it yet, but when I called the company they said that it would, but you have to use two drives with the same capacity.
684476
Sorr y my first answer was not complete. You can down load software for wd and seagate drives that will recognize and format them.
952692
I had 2TB intalled on this enclosure. I think it will work with a bigger hard drive like 6TB.
280030
I'm not sure what you mean by they must be read together. I have two drives (a 500 GB and a 1 TB) that work fine in this unit but both worked fine in the old computers they came from before I pulled them out.
277064
2x 2tb should work fine but I have 1x 1tb and 1x 2tb in jbod mode and works great
1013796
Yes, the enclosure will work with any SATA drive and is backwards compatible with USB 2
65032
Thank you for your interest in our products. No that will not work with this external drive.
1387522
It will only accept a 2TB I have tried the 3TB and it format it but won't read it after that.
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I don't know; I haven't tried it. I am using "regular" e-SATA drives which work fine. Suggest contacting the manufacturer directly since they would know.
1598053
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.