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External enclosure supporting 10TB drives?

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project86

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As the title says, I'm looking for an external USB enclosure for a 10TB drive. The drive in question is this Seagate Barracuda Pro. I do notice an Amazon review from 6 months ago mentioning external enclosure support being very poor at the time.

Fast forward to now, I still see most enclosures mentioning a max size of anywhere from 4TB to 8TB. I see this one does mention 10TB drives but none of the user reviews confirm that fact.

Wondering if anyone has experience, and what I should even be looking for. Or maybe it comes down to trial and error?
 
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If it supports 8TB then there should be no issues with 10 or even 20TB.

The big change was sector sizes a few years back around the 2TB transition.
 
Dew said:
If it supports 8TB then there should be no issues with 10 or even 20TB.

The big change was sector sizes a few years back around the 2TB transition.
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Size compatibility depends on the chip of the device on the unit. Sector size has nothing to do with it.

There are some reviews of users stating success of 10TB on there. That said, not sure how you plan to use it, but it will surely overheat if the drive is doing transfers for more than an short time. The compactness of those enclosures are nice I remember keeping much smaller drives in ones like those back in the day and even just idle on my desk twin platter 7.2ks got roasting hot, but did last for years being on 24/7. I'd be leery of doing that on today's significantly more dense and packed large drives. Even 8TB WD Mybooks that are vented and 5.4k can run in the high 50's during hour+ transfers. Too high. 7.2k in enclosed will roast man.
 
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