External hard drive limitations

[1Cheap2Crazy]

I have an External Hard Drive enclosure that supports HDD up to 300GB.
If I partition a 500GB HD into two partitions of 250GB each, will the external enclosure be able to see both of these partitions as 250GB each?

Thanks

 

[lsv]

Which enclosure, the controller on it may indeed have a limit. Either contact the company for confirmation/firmware possibility or just try it out.

 

[RebateMonger]

Enclosure make/model?

I've never heard of any enclosures with 300 GB limitations. A long time ago, there were enclosures with 137 GB limits. And some enclosures might not deliver enough power for 1TB-class drives. But 300 GB?

 

[1Cheap2Crazy]

It's a Bytecc ME-350U (USB 2.0) enclosure. Purchased about 5 years ago. I wrote years ago to the manufacturer and they said it wasn't possible to upgrade the firmware to accommodate larger drives.
edit: It's for IDE HD.

 

[lsv]

it's a bytecc me-350u (usb 2.0) enclosure. Purchased about 5 years ago. i wrote years ago to the manufacturer and they said it wasn't possible to upgrade the firmware to accommodate larger drives.
edit: It's for ide hd.

............................................________........................
....................................,.-‘”...................``~.,..................
.............................,.-”...................................“-.,............
.........................,/...............................................”:,........
.....................,?......................................................\,.....
.................../...........................................................,}....
................./......................................................,:`^`..}....
.............../...................................................,:”........./.....
..............?.....__.........................................:`.........../.....
............./__.(.....“~-,_..............................,:`........../........
.........../(_....”~,_........“~,_....................,:`........_/...........
..........{.._$;_......”=,_.......“-,_.......,.-~-,},.~”;/....}...........
...........((.....*~_.......”=-._......“;,,./`..../”............../............
...,,,___.\`~,......“~.,....................`.....}............../.............
............(....`=-,,.......`........................(......;_,,-”...............
............/.`~,......`-...............................\....../\...................
.............\`~.*-,.....................................|,./.....\,__...........
,,_..........}.>-._\...................................|..............`=~-,....
.....`=~-,_\_......`\,.................................\........................
...................`=~-,,.\,...............................\.......................
................................`:,,...........................`\..............__..
.....................................`=-,...................,%`>--==``.......
........................................_\..........._,-%.......`\...............
...................................,<`.._|_,-&``................`\..............

 

[1Cheap2Crazy]

But does that mean I can't partition the HD into two smaller partitions each less than 300GB, to avoid that limit?

 

[lsv]

I doubt it, you'll most likely see either the 300gigs or nothing at all.

But hey... try it out 🙂

 

[alexruiz]

I doubt it, you'll most likely see either the 300gigs or nothing at all.

But hey... try it out 🙂

I was going to suggest that

 

[RebateMonger]

I don't have any evidence, but I don't think there ever was a 300 GB limit. I have a couple of Bytecc 350U housings, but no IDE drive larger than 250 GB, so I can't test it.

"Bytecc has a major winner here! Yes you can purchase a USB hard drive already assembled but if you've noticed, they ain't cheap at all. Plus if the hard drive dies, you're out of luck chuck. And with the ME-350 you can change hard drives whenever you want or need to and all the way up to a huge 300GB one and even higher when they are available."

 

[Soundmanred]

Most external drives state limitations of the largest drive size available at the time for some reason. I have had many external drives and none have rejected any size drive.