The old HD was a Seagate 2TB, would I have to buy another Seagate or even another Seagate 2TB hard drive for it to work with whatever was plugging into the hard drive?
Could I buy a Western Digital hard drive and put it in instead?
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jbui
United States193 Posts
The old HD was a Seagate 2TB, would I have to buy another Seagate or even another Seagate 2TB hard drive for it to work with whatever was plugging into the hard drive? Could I buy a Western Digital hard drive and put it in instead? | ||
FO-nTTaX
Johto4743 Posts
When the new HDD has the same connectors as the old one, you should be fine though, but just as a notice, not every case can hold every size of HDD. | ||
jbui
United States193 Posts
http://imgur.com/L4jZQW7,lsUng22?#0 The first image in the album is the connect for the HDD, the second is the actual HDD | ||
Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
The one issue I can think of is that there seems to be a case of some sort around the HDD, which presumably lines up the hard drive inside the enclosure and keeps it in place. If you can't take that off to put it on the new HDD, then it might be hanging loose inside the enclosure which can lead to broken connectors. Just a thing to keep in mind, depending on the design of the external HD. Cheers. | ||
jbui
United States193 Posts
Thanks! | ||
FO-nTTaX
Johto4743 Posts
On August 30 2015 13:57 Djzapz wrote: Some external hard drive manufacturers use proprietary connectors or interfaces for their external products. That looks like standard SATA2 or SATA3. I'm sure someone else will confirm this but yeah you should be good to go, any HDD should work in there I'd think. The one issue I can think of is that there seems to be a case of some sort around the HDD, which presumably lines up the hard drive inside the enclosure and keeps it in place. If you can't take that off to put it on the new HDD, then it might be hanging loose inside the enclosure which can lead to broken connectors. Just a thing to keep in mind, depending on the design of the external HD. Cheers. yeah, about any SATA HDD should be able to go in there. Just be careful if you go for bigger sizes as 3TB or more, because not every controller can handle them. If you go for a 2TB again it should be fine. | ||
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United States193 Posts
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