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Enclosures that handle "up to 400GB" hard drives - what happens if you stick in a 500MB drive?
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Some companies firmware limit their enclosures which would be the case if it worked with a 400GB drive, but not a 500GB. Note - over 128GB vs. less than 128GB support is an actual hardware limitation.

Others may only be listing what was tested - do they still offer the model? Have they updated the specs to a larger drive size? Or is this a current enclosure?

And finally - a lot of el cheapo cases come with el cheapo power supplies. Larger capacity drives use more power. While may work, if over drawing on the power supply - that leads to power supply failure.
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Re: Enclosures that handle "up to 400GB" hard drives - what happens if you stick in a 500MB drive? - by OWC Larry - 02-16-2007, 05:03 PM

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