Can I install a 5.25" External Hard Drive into this unit?
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Yes but you will need to order the bracket from the company for installing a 3x5 HD.
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This Unit is made primarily for CD/DVD Drives. If you look on the bottom of the page there are other Units made for Hard Drives, one is by Connectland and also one by Sabrent. Just scroll down and take a look at what's available.
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I have two of them that I use with CD/DVD drives. Your external drive is already in a case so you would have to first remove the drive mechanism from the original case. One complaint I have about the Sabrent drives is that the fans go bad fairly quickly, making noise and not cooling well.
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The unit might not be able to handle that capacity of a drive you might want to check the manual
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I have not seen a laptop that will accept a 3.5 inch drive internally. Someone familiar with all the details could mount a drive like this in a case to use it as an external drive. I found drives for the Compaq, such as "250 Gigabyte Hard Drive for Compaq Presario M2405LA". It is 2.75 inches wide.
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Yes it will. 5.75 x 4 inch hard drives are actually 3.5" HDD. With a small caddy this can even hold 2.5" HDD's as well.As long as the drive is Serial ATA (SATA) and not parallel ATA (IDE) you will be golden.
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I installed mine in my desktop machine and it works great. I liked it so much I purchased another one for my laptop and it works there as well. The only catch is that you laptop has the space, check and see if what is already in there is a 2.5" HD, if so then it should be no problem.
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nope, you would need CT256M550SSD1 and SABRENT 2.5 to 3.5 Inches Internal Hard Disk Drive Mounting Kit (BK-HDDH)
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I bought 3 of these and they each have different drive. I do not see any reason why your drive will not work as long as it is 3.5". The tricky part is opening case to install your drive...but You Tube has videos to instruct how to do it. I love these external cases!,
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Yes it can be upgraded it's a 2.5" drive. The one it comes with(or at least mine) is Western Digital Model#: WD5000BPVT. Search that hard drive model and you will find all kinds of information about it. It is the one that is in it and the same form factor will have to replace it. Height 9.5mm Width 69.75mm Length 100.3mm
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The one I have is for 3.5", Data capacity is 720KB, 1.25MB, 1.44MB (Formatted). Have not found a drive for the 5.25" disk yet myself.
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For the descriptions of the size of your hard drive, it is a 3.5" disc drive. It will fit in this enclosure for sure but it would be an over-kill. The enclosure is designed for 5.25" Optical drives (such as DVD, Blu-ray, CD burner) but I am sure that you can connect your hard drive to the enclosure. You just need to secure your smaller disc properly in the enclosure. One thing to make sure is that this box has only SATA (serial) interface to your hard disk. If you hard disc is a PATA or IDE disc (parallel interface with a 40-pin connector), it won't work with this enclosure.
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You can as long as where your present Hard drive is incaged. Me I found that an enclosed case (Metal box case) you cannot use this item because it sticks out to far. Hope this helps.
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This harddrive that is in question is a 3.5 inch in size. Your enclosure is a 2.5 inch casing. Will not fit.
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You can use regular 2.5" HDDs but you'll want to pay attention to the thickness of the drive. I went with a WD Red 1TB. I don't have the article handy but there is a good writeup out there on the max thickness and even how to mod it for thicker drives.
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I have 5- 3.5" 3TB drives in mine. You could probably use the 5.25" bays to mount up to 2 additional 3.5" drives with some adapters.
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If you mean so you can put a 2.5 inch drive in a 3,5 SATA external enclosure, I do not think so actually.
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Yes & No. For internal you need a 2.5" drive. If you put in an enclosure (like I did) you can attach via firewire or USB and will work just fine.
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Sure is - any 2.5" Sata HDD will do the trick. I do recommend upgrading to the WD Black rather than Bare. They're built better and have faster read/write speeds.