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| 568938 | 2007-07-13 23:49:00 | Hi there, I have just purchased a Welland ME740U2F USB and Firewire External Hard Drive Enclosure and according to the place I bought it from, the max capacity drive that it will run is 400GB. I was wondering if it would be possible to use a 500GB drive in there. I realise that the 400GB limit is in place due to a larger drive drawing more current that the enclosure might not handle, but maybe a new 500GB drive would not be a problem? Has anyone tries this? Or would it definately not work? Many thanks Jase |
jasezone (1567) | ||
| 568939 | 2007-07-13 23:58:00 | Well I wouldn't try it, especially if it was to be used as a backup drive. A 500GB drive can hold a heck of a lot of data. | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 568940 | 2007-07-14 01:51:00 | Could be a bad idea. If you only put data on it after its in there it might be alright but if its full and you lose 100Gb.................. I wouldn't use anythng like that anyway. More current? My IDE to USB adapter doesn't have a limit, I can plugg any drive I like into it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 568941 | 2007-07-14 01:58:00 | You should have got a vantex one as they support up to 750GB | robbyp (2751) | ||
| 568942 | 2007-07-14 01:59:00 | Whoops, the firewire one also only supports 500GB. | robbyp (2751) | ||
| 568943 | 2007-07-14 02:23:00 | Most Hard Drive manufacturers have specs on how much power they draw on their websites. I have seem some enclosures with feeble powers supplies cause the hard drives not to start up correctly (and a faulty one that killed hard drives). But in reality, they are probably the 400GB is just outdated documentation. The bigger problem is that some of these enclosures do not cool properly... |
gibler (49) | ||
| 568944 | 2007-07-14 02:48:00 | Yeah, so i'm probably just better off going for the 400GB recommended maximum size, then if anything goes wrong I have something to fall back on. I chose this enclosure as it supports both USB and Firewire and got it cheaper than usual. | jasezone (1567) | ||
| 568945 | 2007-07-14 03:44:00 | The 400 GB is probably a limitation in the software of the adapter. If you have a 500GB drive, just make a 400 GB partition on it, and leave the rest unallocated. But that is a lot of eggs to have in one basket. ;) | Graham L (2) | ||
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