Will this drive work? Seagate 4TB SSHD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive. I'm concerned about speed and relialbility.
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The software is buggy and their support is hands down the worst I have ever had. People treat you like your an idiot and just blame something that is not theirs. Will never buy another Buffalo product. Do yourself a favorite and spend a few extra bucks for something else made buy someone who wants your business
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I see no reason why it won't work. There are faster connection options (thunderbolt) but they are a LOT more expensive. This is an inexpensive drive with lots of storage.
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I have 2 (two) 8TB Seagate 3.5" hard drive in it and both works flawlessly, writing at the same time using a single eSATA interface. So with 4TB only 50% of my capacity per drive, it will support. In fact, I don't think it's the box's job to claim what it supports, it's just a marketing ploy and as you can see it's outdated. 6TB and 8TB drives are out now and they work.
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I bought these: Seagate Momentus 7200 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive ST9750420ASThey're fast and work great so far after daily abuse with external Final Cut Pro, Aperture, Photoshop, and iTunes libraries. Connected via Thunderbolt it seems just as fast as an internal drive. At the time, earlier in 2013, these were the biggest, fastest drives available. There are bigger drives now with larger caches.
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I did a search and the drive you mentions comes up as a SATA 3.5" drive. So, yes, this would work.
512456
Yes, the Seagate hard drive works with either 2.0 or 3.0 . . . the transfer rate is faster with 3.0
1404587
Yes, no problem. I personally use a standard SATA drive through, I need the capacity. Works like a charm...
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Given that there are conflicting answers to this question on Amazon, and I really wanted to know before purchasing a drive, I contacted Seagate. Here's their response: " Unfortunately, part of the information is not provided at all. The RPM of our Expansion drives are not a provided specification, meaning the unit can run from 5400 RPMs to 7200 RPMs. We have no way to know which is it. It is not a guaranteed specification." So, it's a crap shoot. And it matters.
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yes absolutely. my advice is to just ignore all the seagate info on the drive. I basically just put it all in a folder that says "seagate sys info" and never disturb it. If you let it set stuff up, then you could become a slave to its rules. Basically just treat it as a big fat flash drive. Copy all, and it will only update the new stuff. It is incredibly reliable and fast
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I was unable to locate any specifications for the system you identified.Make sure motherboard has Sata 3Gps or 6Gps (faster)If you are adding the SSD make sure you have an extra SATA port, cable and a place to mount SSD.** If the drive is configured properly on a 6Gps port, there will be a very notable performance boost over any HDD, this SSD will outperform any 10,000 rpm drive.
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Yss, it should work fine. I use mine with multiple different ssd weekly and I specifically dont remember any of the rpms of my old hard drives but it worked on all of them as well.
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it will work but you wont see the full performance of the drives. you'll get between 300 and 375mb/s on sata 2.
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Generally if it has a standard SATA connection, it should work. The only thing I could see a possible issue with would be the encryption that the drive uses and if special software would be necessary. I don't know much about that type of drive.
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Yes, but the unit is advertised at 5gb/sec. You won't even see that in the real world. I am very satisfied with mine. I use it mostly for backups and it is plenty quick with my Seagate 1tb 6gb/s drive. You should use it with a USB 3.O port for best performance. Also, If you look at the device properties you should set it set for 'Quick Removal' not 'Better performance' so you can 'hot plug/unplug' it w/o worry of data corruption. I have run CrystalDiskMark benchmark tool and the best I get is approx. 90mb/sec on sequential reads/writes. You may get better results. USB will always have some amount of 'system overhead' so you will generally get much better performance w/a dedicated(on board) SATA III controller as on your motherboard. BTW, I also watch HD movies on my unit with no issues. Hope this helps.
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I just put a 3TB Seagate drive in one of these and it worked. One of my laptops had a weird issue, but other machines did not. TDMSERVICE.EXE consumed massive amounts of RAM (3+GB) a few times before it acted normal. A different laptop of the same make/model did not have the same problem. That first laptop has issues adding hardware anyways, so I don't think it's a combination of the enclosure and drive.
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It will work I have an enteral 3tb and the external USB 4tb seagate works fine...
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sure be ok. it is ok when i use the 1Tb. but it is better that you check with the Seagate service team