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Hard drive size limit for external enclosures?

youcancallmeal · 2008-06-05 15:50:53

I was thinking of getting this external hard drive enclosure but I'm a bit confused about something its says in the description. In particular "The Integral is designed for 3.5 inch IDE PATA and SATA HDD drives up to 400Gb.". It couldn't be 400Gb max could it? I was hoping to put a 1tb drive into it. I'm trying to check…

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05-06-2008 4:50pm

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youcancallmeal

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I was thinking of getting this external hard drive enclosure but I'm a bit confused about something its says in the description. In particular "The Integral is designed for 3.5 inch IDE PATA and SATA HDD drives up to 400Gb.".

It couldn't be 400Gb max could it? I was hoping to put a 1tb drive into it.
I'm trying to check the AKASA website at the moment put it is ridiculously slow loading every page, probably cos they're based in Taiwan or thereabouts?

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#2 06-06-2008 12:16pm
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No mention of the 400G limit here.

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#3 06-06-2008 1:14pm
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I checked the manual for it on the Akasa Europe website and it says drives of any capacity so I'm going to go with that

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