Is there a size limit on external USB hard drives?
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The internal SATA hard drives have a limit on a lot of motherboards of 2TB and if I want to get a 3TB HDD then I need to connect it using a PCI card (or get a new motherboard). But I wanted to ask: If I connect a 3TB harddrive to a external USB enclosure, will it work? The Vantec enclosure I want t…
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To answer the subject line, USB's limit is the limit of its mass-storage class (MSC) spec. This spec is in turn based on the SCSI transparent command set. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_mass_storage_device_class#Device_access). Looking a…
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