Has anyone tried a 3TB drive in this?
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I have my terabyte hard drive in this. Best enclosure, period. Just make sure to use the screws that it comes with to keep the hard drive in place. I learned that the hard way. The hard drive moved and it wouldn't connect-wasn't coming into contact with the port. After realising this and screwing it down, it runs great. No issues whatsoever.
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I have several Seagate 4 TB drives plugged into my StarTech Hard Drive Enclosures, so 3 TB should be no problem.
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The documentation states 3TB max. I am running 3TB drives with Mac, USB 3 is slow.
1507658
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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I see this question a number of times here. There is a misunderstanding about disks 3TB or larger will only show 2.19TB. ONLY IF you are trying to make it a bootable device. If you are going to use it as a backup disks and if you just want to dump files there, it is not a problem. I would say it is Amazon's problem in that they were not clear. This is unfortunate, but I wonder if anyone chose a lower capacity disk due to the comment.
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Yes,I use 3 sans digital 8 bays and added this one to the group and put 3tb drives in it.WORKS GREAT!
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Yes it does work with 3Tb drives, but as Mr. Hastings hint at the duel drive does not work very well. I have 4 single drives and they work great but the one duel drive I have only works with one drive, if I put the second drive in windows 7 starts dropping both drives. Stick with the single and you will be better off.
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Yes, as a JBOD I have (1) 3TB and (3) 500 GB drives installed. I will add though, my MacMini has a had issues with seeing all.
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No. I tried hooking up a 3 TB drive and you have to format it NTSF which doesn't go up to 3 TB.Tech support said you can format the drive with two partitions. But that didn't work for me.
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The one I received didn't work at all. I returned it for a Drobo. I use 2TB drives in the Drobo so I don't know about 4 in that.
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All I can say is that I have 8 3 TB drives in and it works fine. Not sure what the max drive size is.
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Unfortunately, I have. I bought a 1TBand a 3TB. Both failed within 2 years. Worst investment of tech dollars I have ever made. I have to replace 3.5TB of data now...
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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
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I haven't tried it but the only limitation I found is with USB 3.0 it won't see the drive.
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Yes, I have one built with 4x6TB WD RED drives in an 18TB RAID-5 volume. I was able to format it with GPT, NTFS. I tested copying files, and I ran a chkdsk /r to test the free space. Everything looks good so far. I am going to be using it soon to fill with data.
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No it won't support 4TB drives. According to the specs it will support 3TB.
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I have installed a 3TB drive and it has been working without any issues. I believe that the drive size would be more of a function of the operating system and Device Monitor settings. If you have a drive I would try it but if you want to be safe, I would use a 3TB. This is a link to the Mediasonic product forum http://forum.mediasonic.ca/search.php?sid=1802efeb494c71a15013ae8c81a53b31 The product forum does talk about users installing 4TB drives in their 5 bay version of this enclosure.
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I have installed a 3TB drive and it has been working without any issues. I believe that the drive size would be more of a function of the operating system and Device Monitor settings. If you have a drive I would try it but if you want to be safe, I would use a 3TB. This is a link to the Mediasonic product forum http://forum.mediasonic.ca/search.php?sid=1802efeb494c71a15013ae8c81a53b31The product forum does talk about users installing 4TB drives in their 5 bay version of this enclosure.