Should I buy an external enclosure or drive dock for the Seagate Barracuda LP 2 TB 5900RPM SATA 3 GB/s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive ST32000542AS-Bare Drive: What is the best solution: an external enclosure or drive dock?
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In my opinion, enclosure is a better option if you plan to "set it and forget it"
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Assuming you are looking for a desktop hard drive, you should be able to use any Serial-ATA drive that will fit in a 3.5" bay compartment. Right now, the "sweet spot" for getting the most bang for the buck is a 2TB drive - http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST2000DM001/dp/B005T3GRN2/ref=sr_1_7?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1403804113&sr=1-7
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I apologize for such delayed reply as I missed to see your email for so long! I have seagate free-agent Dockstar connected to my Seagate 3TB Backup Plus Desktop drive and network adapter. I am able to backup regularly from my desktop and I am able to see my backup drive from Windows explorer.
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I just have a 2 TB drive in it at the moment. If it says that 4 TB is the limit, you probably should respect that. I have found that docking bases tend to top out at 4 TB as well, so maybe that's the current limit.
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I am not sure, but here is where you should be able to find out: http://www.seagate.com/support/external-hard-drives/
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Yes. I am currently using the Uspeed dock with a Western Digital 4 TB WD Green SATA III 5400 RPM 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD40EZRX. I used the dock to connect to my Windows 7 machine via the eSATA port. When first hooked up the 4TB drive displayed itself in the Computer Management/Disk Management console where I partitioned it using the GUID Partition Table then formatted with NTFS. Properties shows capacity at 3.63 TB . Been using it for a week or so. Fast and no problems so far. Hope that helps.
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The good news is that the connector in side the dock is a standard SATA port. The bad news (for me) is that a full size desktop HD wont fit. I had to use Sabrent USB-DSC5 Serial ATA or IDE 2.5-/3.5-Inch to USB 2.0 Cable Converter Adapter with Power Supply to connect my HD. Now I guess I look for a cheap laptop HD....Let me know if I can do anything else for ya.
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The dock does not include a SATA drive. However, the case makes a very attractive and functional mounting system for a 2.5" drive that you provide. It is very easy to mount and dismount a SATA drive, should you need to change drives for any reason. It looks good sitting on a desktop and also provides three very convenient USB 3.0/2.0 ports. I hope this helps.Farrell Moss
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if you dont want to invest much with SSD and want more space, you can buy seagate 2.5 in SSHD here: Seagate 1TB Laptop Gaming SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 2.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST1000LM014)
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I recommend your SSD drive of choice be the internal drive (inside the laptop). The NexStar USB dock will support your 1TB drive as your secondary drive. You might even expand on this design in the future and pop in two 3TB drives in this dock. The read/write times are more than sufficient to accomplish a smooth flow of data, whether it be in the document creation arena to that of gaming. Remember to change the drive letter path to the external drive letter when installing software after the OS is loaded. Otherwise, your SSD drive will fill up rather quickly. Also, note that one does not run defrag sessions on a SSD, because the process will damage the drive. Just my tip of the day. I recommend your SSD drive of choice be the internal drive (inside the laptop). The NexStar USB dock will support your 1TB drive as your secondary drive. You might even expand on this design in the future and pop in two 3TB drives in this dock. The read/write times are more than sufficient to accomplish a smooth flow of data, whether it be in the document creation arena to that of gaming. Remember to change the drive letter path to the external drive letter when installing software after the OS is loaded. Otherwise, your SSD drive will fill up rather quickly. Also, note that one does not... » Read More I recommend your SSD drive of choice be the internal drive (inside the laptop). The NexStar USB dock will support your 1TB drive as your secondary drive. You might even expand on this design in the future and pop in two 3TB drives in this dock. The read/write times are more than sufficient to accomplish a smooth flow of data, whether it be in the document creation arena to that of gaming. Remember to change the drive letter path to the external drive letter when installing software after the OS is loaded. Otherwise, your SSD drive will fill up rather quickly. Also, note that one does not run defrag sessions on a SSD, because the process will damage the drive. Just my tip of the day. « Show Less
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The enclosure can be purchased (from Oyen) either way - with or without a drive. I think Amazon offers them without a drive. I always buy mine without a drive so that I can get one that meets my specs, and usually at a lower price.
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This enclosure should work. But note that it is a snap together plastic enclosure. You can't take a drive out and reuse the enclosure. It was designed to be sold as an external drive with the drive included. It is not reusable like enclosures designed to be sold alone as enclosures.UPDATE: Found the video about taking it apart without breaking pins. Cool.ALSO: I believe Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 drives are always SATA.
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This enclosure should work. But note that it is a snap together plastic enclosure. You can't take a drive out and reuse the enclosure. It was designed to be sold as an external drive with the drive included. It is not reusable like enclosures designed to be sold alone as enclosures. UPDATE: Found the video about taking it apart without breaking pins. Cool. ALSO: I believe Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 drives are always SATA.
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Max supported size? Dimensionally, it fits every modern 3.5 inch drive I've tried. Gig/Terabyte wise, it doesn't care, the Serial ATA (SATA) data connectors pass through. If your drive will work without this dock, it should work with the dock. It's sort of like asking how fast a car can your garage handle. The garage doesn't care about speed, just if it will fit through the door.
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I have my terabyte hard drive in this. Best enclosure, period. Just make sure to use the screws that it comes with to keep the hard drive in place. I learned that the hard way. The hard drive moved and it wouldn't connect-wasn't coming into contact with the port. After realising this and screwing it down, it runs great. No issues whatsoever.
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While I haven't tried the dock with that particular Seagate model, I haven't found any Sata drive that it has not worked for.
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It will work with any sata drives. I assume that the barracuda is a sata drive. So if this is true, it will work.