Can any one confirm these will work with larger sized drives? 3TB and 4TB in my case.
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These devices work only with seagate go flex hard drives. I tried it with a standard sata drive it does not work. Very lame! Not sure what type of drive you are referring to with 3/4TB size. Standard or go flex type. I didn't see go flex type so I'm guessing you are referring to standard - if so - they won't work.
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Do not know if 4tb drive works. Took a 3tb Western Digital USB drive and removed the drive from the case and put it into this system. Worked great and was cheapest way to get a large drive.
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Ronald, I have done both copied smaller drives to bigger 1GB to 3GB I have 2 of these enclosures and love them
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This is a standard USB to standard SATA adapter, so the size of the drive shouldn't matter. This should work just fine for you.
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I went through a couple of these that never worked out of the box, so if you are going to try it, stick to the specs. I returned 2 of them and switched to the Buffalo LinkStation LS-WVL/E and it has been working great with two 3TB drives.
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I have installed both 2.5 & 3.5 inch FF drives without any problems. That actual disk partition size is dependent of the OS. The largest drive I nave installed is 2TB and that has been working fine. I have no experience with larger disk drives.
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I'm using Western Digital WD10JPVT Scorpio Blue 1 TB drives, which are 9.5mm. Given how tightly these fit I am extremely skeptical that a 30% thicker drive would fit in the enclosure. According to this review: http://www.storagereview.com/synology_diskstation_ds411slim_review 12.5 mm drives will work, but it sounds like that is right at the limit.
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Yes. I have Four 4TB drives in mine and hey all work fine. Drives must be partitioned as GPT (which is nothing unusual) in order to see all the available space.
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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.
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As per the website, 2x3 tb can be use. So your 4tb don't look to be compatible.
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I haven't had any problems with any of the 3.5" drives I have tried. I think I have a Western Digital Green 1Tb in one and a 1.5Tb in the other at the moment (I have two, one for my main drive, the second for my backup).
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Regarding use of multiple sized drives; you should not only use the same size, but the same brand and model if possible to avoid issues. The only configuration that this doesn't apply/mean as much to could be JBOD (Basically just one big data dump w/no redundancy). Data gone is gone:)
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When this product was released 2TB was the largest drive available. Customers have confirmed 3TB are compatible but we did not test anything above 2TB.
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I have 4 1tb drives attached to this controller. I don't know if it has a size limitation.
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Works fine w/1 TB every time, but will not do anything with a 4 tb. Tried different hd, different systems, different usb. No response with the larger drive.
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Yes I am using this array full of 4tb red drives. You are good to go with these...
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You sure can. I have mine working with one WD red 3tb hard drive. Will upgrade to another one same capacity once I get this one full.