Hdd enclosure question

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I've been looking at a ThermaltakeST0021U. The issue I have is that I'm putting a 4tb drive in it and in the enclosures specifications it says it supports up to 2tb 3.5" drives. How can it only support 2tb? Please help thanks in advance.

 

[jsmithepa]

The USB to SATA firmware may be the limiting factor.

 

[SBMfromLA]

That question was asked by someone else. This might help you to better understand:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/290465-32-external-enclosures-capacity-limit

 

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Basically what I need is an external HDD enclosure that supports a HDD up to 4TB, supports SATA 3 (6gb/s) and also has an ESATA port. I need this to wire to my playstation 4. Im going to be using the WD SSHD 4TB hybrid drive. And preferably an enclosure that has a fan or two (blue led's are cool too). I have looked long and hard and cant find one that meets all of that criteria. The fans and LED's are not important. Can anyone find one that's not a multi-bay 100+$ one??

 

[SBMfromLA]

This one meets all of your criteria, with support up to 6TB... with one exception... only has SATA 1 & 2. But I MUST POINT OUT... that having a mechanical hard drive with SATA 3 is actually meaningless. If you connect a mechanical hard drive to a SATA 3 and another one to a SATA 2.. you will NOT see any difference in performance or speed... so it's just a marketing trick... SATA 3 performance only works if you're using an SSD. Perhaps that's why you were finding such a hard time with enclosures with SATA 3 support... because it would be meaningless for mechanical hard drives...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182247