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External Hard Drive Enclosure not compatible with hard drive?

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Tebor0

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I have a 1TB WD green hard drive and a Velocty Elite Series SATA/ESATA/USB hard drive enclosure.

The hard drive spins up and works fine if I plug it directly into a SATA port on the motherboard and power it directly from my desktop power supply but when I use the enclosure it doesn't spin up at all.

I just finished exchanging the enclosure thinking that there was a power issue but my 2nd one has the same problem.

I mentioned this to the sales guy when making the exchange and he said that sometimes the hard drives are not compatible. (??) I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't be compatible but here I am with either a 2nd defective enclosure or something's up.


What's going on. Anyone know?

Thanks 🙂
 
Hmm, never used that enclosure, but I guess the chipset it uses could throw a fit if the HD was too big in size?

 
Check to see if your enclosure support 1TB HD. I've notice that some enclosure will specific only support to a certain limit ie 400 gb HD.
 
Have a sorta similar issue with an Asetone (or named something like that) enclosure, the 640 gb WD green hdd didn't work. The enclosure works fine with both seagate and samsung 1tb drives. That green drive works fine everywhere else too including other hdd enclosures.

Might be something to do with wd greens power settings??
 
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