[SOLVED] What Will An Enclosure Do?

[Mchado128bit]

I have a 677Gb hdd in my enclosure. Will it br extra space or will it improve load times on games or even the time it takes to load windows.

 

[USAFRet]

An 'enclosure'.
As in, an external enclosure? Connected via USB?

1. It has no impact on the size of the drive.
2. It will make loading time slower.
3. Don't even think about trying to run the OS from a USB connected drive.

An 'enclosure' is used to make a drive 'portable'.

 

[Mchado128bit]

Can i download movies and shows onto my enclosure with my cablebox. It has usb too.

 

[Corwin65]

Anything you can download to your computer can be saved to the external (enclosure) drive. It's not really meant for running programs (especially an OS).

There is no way to download from your cable box to it directly.

 

[USAFRet]

Can i download movies and shows onto my enclosure with my cablebox. It has usb too.

That all depends on your cablebox.
probably not.
Or at most, just to extend the capacity of the drive already inside the cablebox. Not to 'download', and watch that content elsewhere.

 

[popatim]

If your cable box does allow you to record to the external, they will be encrypted and not usable anywhere else.

 

[Mchado128bit]

My enclosure is a sabrent and when the hdd is being used it will blink. That happens when windows boots up.

 

[USAFRet]

My enclosure is a sabrent and when the hdd is being used it will blink. That happens when windows boots up.

That probably just means the drive is being accessed.

 

[Mchado128bit]

But there's nothing in the drive.

 

[USAFRet]

But there's nothing in the drive.

Windows is still trying to access it, empty or not.