Iis their a drive size limit that the hot swap bay will handle? i have 2-3tb drives direct con. to mb and 3rd one in hot swap bay cant be seen.
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Physical size? it has 2 regular drive trays that are SATA hot swap-able. your 3Tb drives will fit fine if they are SATA and not IDE cable connection. I have 2 60Gb SSD's in mine. it also has 2 more regular drive bays in the back left side also, NOT hot swap-able. Now, the internal size of your drive, i.e.- 3Tb, is only limited by your motherboard and processor and operating system combination usually. This case has 2 Sata connections, one for each front hot-swap bay, at the back of the opening, one above the other. You mount the drive on the tray and slide it in and lock the lever in place. Then you connect two Sata cables to the adapter and then to the motherboard. Hope this helps! Physical size? it has 2 regular drive trays that are SATA hot swap-able. your 3Tb drives will fit fine if they are SATA and not IDE cable connection. I have 2 60Gb SSD's in mine. it also has 2 more regular drive bays in the back left side also, NOT hot swap-able. Now, the internal size of your drive, i.e.- 3Tb, is only limited by your motherboard and processor and operating system combination usually. This case has 2 Sata connections, one for each front hot-swap bay, at the back of the opening, one above the other. You mount the drive on the tray and slide it in and lock the lever in place.... » Read More Physical size? it has 2 regular drive trays that are SATA hot swap-able. your 3Tb drives will fit fine if they are SATA and not IDE cable connection. I have 2 60Gb SSD's in mine. it also has 2 more regular drive bays in the back left side also, NOT hot swap-able. Now, the internal size of your drive, i.e.- 3Tb, is only limited by your motherboard and processor and operating system combination usually. This case has 2 Sata connections, one for each front hot-swap bay, at the back of the opening, one above the other. You mount the drive on the tray and slide it in and lock the lever in place. Then you connect two Sata cables to the adapter and then to the motherboard. Hope this helps! « Show Less
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I've never heard of a limit on that hot swap. The hot swap bay has an interface card behind it. That card then plugs into your mobo with sata cables. I'd start there and check the cables, then check to see if the drive in the bay is properly inserted when you close the latch on the front.
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All I can say is that I have 8 3 TB drives in and it works fine. Not sure what the max drive size is.
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Each drive will always be a bit different, as no two drives will have the exactly the same free space. Mine is 931GB
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I have not tried. I have tried upto 1tb. If your drive has external power supply i dont see why should there be a problem. However i think i read somewhere that it supports upto 1tb. Anyways i found this product super useful.
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Their is no problem with mixing various size drives. I did that until I eventually updated to all 4th drives.
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Basic rule of thumb is that this will take up 2 slots. Exactly two. If you only have one Drive slot available, then no.
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Regarding use of multiple sized drives; you should not only use the same size, but the same brand and model if possible to avoid issues. The only configuration that this doesn't apply/mean as much to could be JBOD (Basically just one big data dump w/no redundancy). Data gone is gone:)
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I installed an internal 3tb drive with no problems, all 3 tb useable. Firmware Version 1.0.1.52 will support 4tb external, but I'm not sure about internal. I would think it would.
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The documentation states 3TB max. I am running 3TB drives with Mac, USB 3 is slow.
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I haven't had any problems with any of the 3.5" drives I have tried. I think I have a Western Digital Green 1Tb in one and a 1.5Tb in the other at the moment (I have two, one for my main drive, the second for my backup).
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I think it might be difficult to have two 3.5 drives in this case. I have one 3.5" 3TB Drive and two 2.5" drives. One is the boot SSD and the second is a notebook drive. The 2.5" drives are sitting where the DID would go which I don't have installed.
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Yes. I have two 2TB Elements and have never had a problem. I have a 722, 722K and 622.
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No. I tried hooking up a 3 TB drive and you have to format it NTSF which doesn't go up to 3 TB.Tech support said you can format the drive with two partitions. But that didn't work for me.
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the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of my space, oh, and of course ignore the fact that i just deleted 12TB of data the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of... » Read More the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of my space, oh, and of course ignore the fact that i just deleted 12TB of data « Show Less
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This is most likely due to your motherboard not recognizing the connection as "hot swappable". My MB has only one port which is "hot swappable" I have a case with an external HD port that is plugged into that port and I can "hot swap" a drive with no problem. I have six HDs plugged into my BAY HDD Power Switch. #1 is my system SSD, #2 is my primary Storage. #3-6 are for photo and video storage after editing, etc. I bought the switch because there is no sense in starting up drives #3-6 every time I start my PC. If I am just checking email or Facebook, I even turn off #2.
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I Don't believe there is a drive size (as in number of Gigs) limitation . That pretty much relates to most all external drive enclodures. I DO reccomend (as with this model) that it have at least one fan for cooling. Currently I hace a 2TB drive in this particular model ,and have had No issues to date.Hope that helps (someone anyway) LOL HappyPuting. ;-)
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I don't see any limitation on drive size in the user guide. You can find it here: http://www.tp-link.com/resources/document/TL-WR710N(US_V1_User_Guide.pdf#page72. It's 284 pages!