Will this enclosure work with other brand hard drives (i.e WD green drives, seagate barracuda, etc)? Is there a compatibility list somewhere? THANKS!
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I'm sure it's internals use a proprietary drive but is a sealed unit and there isn't a lot of info out there on swapping out drives. There are other brands & models that are designed with removable cages that may be better suited
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The external enclosure comes with 1 IDE ribbon cable and 1 power supply connector 4 pins Molex (I am not sure if this is the 4 round pin power connector your refer to). I have used the enclosure with older PATA/IDE hard drives and the newer SATA hard drives and have not found any hard drives that the enclosure will not adapt to. I think it would be a safe bet. If nothing else you can use it with any SATA hard drives in the future.
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It should! Disappointed in the fact that the enclosure is only USB 2 and not USB 3 Still can be used with other slower drives with out much wasted performance
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Should work fine, Ive been using mine with the WD Black 250 GB Mobile Hard Drive: 2.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA II, 16 MB Cache, 5 Year Warranty - WD2500BEKT for a week or so & its been A-OK.
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Not being a real computer geek, I can't give a 100% positive answer, but I think most hard drives are compatible with just about anything. Of all the hard drives I've installed or have had fail and replaced, I've never had a compatibility problem with anything.
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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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Hard drives are relatively universal, if there's enough space in the drive bay to fit, you can put it in there.Remember, this is a Serial ATA drive, you may need an adapter depending on the sort of connector. Could you open up the drive bay and show me the connectors on the device? If not, at least provide a description of how the drive is connected.
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If its a 3.5 HDD thannit should work. But the only bad thing about the enclosure is that its a pain to take apart. If you have a few bucks to spar I recommend something that is easier to open.
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I have this enclosure. IDE will not work with it. There are adapters on the market but they will not fit in this case. SATA drives slide in and when the door closes it presses them in tightly to make a secure connection. No room for adapters at all.
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Sorry for the late response. I bought the diskless enclosure so I am not sure which hard drives they come with.
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All SATA is backward compatible AFAIK. I think that's why Seagate doesn't mention it in their specs. I've never had a problem -- I'm using two of these (3GB each) in a NAS that only supports 3gbs.
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I tried to plug in an external 320GB hard drive and it didn't work at all. The enclosure had its own power supply and I have plugged it into other USB Hubs before, but this one didn't even recognize it. don't know if it was defective or a limitation of the design, but I am returning it considering that I bought this Hub to swap multiple external hard drives and thumb drives. Hope this helps.
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 3TB. I put in 4 of those. Hooked up to RaspberryPi. Works beautifully.
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You need to know if drive is SATA (small flat connection) or PATA ( large with many pins)This particular enclosure uses SATA connection. Hope this helps
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StarTech.com 2.5in Black eSATA USB External Hard Drive Enclosure for SATA HDD http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002NY9K1Q/ref=pe_175190_21431760_3p_M3T1_ST1_dp_1
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I have not had problems with my enclosure, but it will not work with your older ATA HDD. The enclosure is designed for a SATA connection.
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It says it will fit a 9.5 to 12.5 mm thick drive. I put a seagate that was 12.5mm in it and it was not quite big enough so didn't work for me. You need to take the drive out of its enclosure and measure it or see if you can get the info online.