Question 1

What's the maximum HDD capacity compatible with this docking station?

Accepted Answer

Up until today I have only installed/tested up to 3TB drives in this dock. Today I installed a brand new 4 TB drive into the ICY DOCK and ran a self test prior to installing the drive in my Network Storage device. This dock is attached to my MacBook Pro and all tests ran without a problem. Both the drive and the ICY DOCK performed as expected.

Question 2

What is maximum capacity disk this unit will support?
4GB? 6GB? 500MB???

Accepted Answer

I can't answer the question definitively.  But I can say that I have 4 of these Icy Docks and they're the best of all that I've tried.  Fast and work flawlessly with drives up to 2TB.  The reason why I haven't used them with larger than 2TB drives is because in the past I've experienced data loss with another manufacturers dock (not Icy Dock) and just don't want to gamble with my data.  Also I would like to mention that I did get another brand USB 3.0 dock to utilize 3TB and 4TB disks, but the performance and reliability was suspect, takes forever to spin up and mount the volume.  I would recommend for disks larger than 2TB to use NAS or NAS RAID.

Question 3

does it handle 3 or 4 TB drives?

Accepted Answer

That's a good question. Not sure. I would imagine that it could, but don't hold me to that. It just works like an external drive for your harddrive w/out the enclosure. Hope that helps.

I originally borrowed one from a friend to test it out and so bought one for myself. It was VERY useful for not only myself, but my family members. Their drives were only up to 500GB. It's not superfast, so you might taking naps waiting for 3 or 4 TB.

Question 4

Do I need the power supply if I'm using esata connection that should have power over sata?

The older one I used at school had a power adaptor to use , but things could have changed.
Thanks

Accepted Answer

I don't know if this one supports eSatap (probably not). I have always have to use the power connection if for my esata cable.

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