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Stupid question: backplane/cage size limits

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the_b_man

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A lot of 4-in-3 HDD cages with backplanes, as well as USB external enclosures, have specs like "up to 3 TB HDD supported". Do these specs actually apply/matter? ie. Any reason not to put a 4 TB drive in?

Especially with a backplane, which I would expect to be nothing more than a direct connection from drive connector to the rear connector.
 
Normally manufacturers put down whatever is the largest available drive size at the time for marketing purposes. The majority of hot-swap enclosures like that have no logic and therefore just act like a SATA cable, so any disk size should work.
 
It could be debated that it was tested for vibration tolerance.

But normally not, and they just list the largest disk :)
 
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