Can two hard drives be simultaneously mounted? That is, if I had two drives plugged in, both would show up on my computer?
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Yes, two hard drives are accessible at the same time with this device; it works great!
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Yes. Also you can mount Laptop size Hard Drive or the normal Tower Size. It's a pretty good product for the price
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Yes. I have two drives plugged in and Windows 7 shows them as D: and E:. They both show up at the same time and can be read/written to concurrently.
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MANUFACTURER RESPONSE: Thanks for asking!In a word, no- however as another respondent has noted this would require a little extra caution when handling the drives.Hope this helps! For fastest response, let us know of any other questions by emailing support@plugable.com or visiting support.plugable.com.Best wishes-Jeff EverettPlugable Technoloiges
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I do not think you can connect them at the same exact time. I have mine hooked up to a power supply from a computer and that way I can access it as a extra drive when I need it. It has a 500 gig hard drive and that is nice not to have the computer ways spinning the extra platters.steve
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The system will see both drives individually, but if you are using esata, you need an esata interface that has the capability of splitting the port.
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Two 4TB drives. You can configure it to mirror those two 4TB, split it so parts if each file could end up on both drives (makes it very fast, but vunerable to corruption if either one fails), or separately to use them as two unique 4 TB drives for a total of 8TB.
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Yes. I installed one. There's a slot to add a second HDD but it would just put SSD in it.
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They can be stacked (haven't tried - prefer side by side) but there may be a heat problem as they are metal enclosures and the bottom one in the stack may radiate heat upwards to the top one. Would recommend using the plastic foot dots to provide more space between the two drives and to cut down on the direct contact of the metal enclosures.
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Yes you can have multiple drives in your PC. My recommendation is that you want to use the 240GB Kingston HyperX 3k as your main drive to install your Operating System on. Use the 1TB for data/storage.
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MANUFACTURER ANSWER: Thanks for asking! You can connect two self powered external hard drives to this hub. This hub will not be able to power two host powered external hard drives. USB 2.0 has limited performance overall, however, you should not see any noticeable drop when comparing this hub to using several USB 2.0 ports directly on your computer.
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You can hook up 2 hard drives on the IDE cable if there is room or 2 connector blocks open. Would recommend getting a SATA card and then you could install 2 hard drives on that (much faster drive)
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In interpreted your original question as you had already put data on a single drive and was creating a new array. If you have not then place both drives in the array without any data on either. Setup the array then place your data on the drives.
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Hi Dan, If by hard drives, you mean that the regular-size USB part of it can be plugged into a computer, then yes--the bigger plugs into your computer port. Does that answer your question? If not, please post again and I'll be happy to see if I can be more specific.
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You have to open the back and look at how the first drive is mounted. Make sure there are connection wires available and connect it the same way the other one is set up. If you have any difficulty, check with Gateway or a Computer geek shop in your area. EC
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Yes, it does. You can use one 2TB HDD as your main drive and the other as your backup, or you can use both HDDs at the same time for a combined 4TB HDD.
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There is only a single USB port on the drive. So each drive would have to be plugged into a dedicated USB port on your computer or plugged into a USB 2 or USB 3 hub. I have both of mine plugged into a hub.
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No. The model I have will accept either a 2.5" drive OR a 3.5" drive, but they cannot be inserted simultaneously. I have been very please with the product, and do not consider this a limitation. Should you need to transfer data between two external HDDs, an inexpensive enclosure would allow you to do so.
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No. You have to replace the drive with a tray that holds the second hard drive.