Seagate 6TB HDD + ? Docking Station

Wasn't sure if this should be in hardware or accessories.

Looking to purchase this drive and use as an external drive for my sager. Movies, books, etc. Most docking stations/ Enclosures/etc seem to be limited to reading up to 3 or 4 tb.

Seagate STBD6000100 6TB 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Retail Kit - Newegg.com

Are there any known/available docking stations that would be able to use this drive? I'm assuming it would need to be a externally powered one, correct? Suggestions? Thanks!

 

So no way to use this 6tb 3.5in drive in an external dock as storage?

 

I googled "hard drive docking station 6TB" and found this: Kingwin.com: Hard Drive Docking Stations - EZD-2535 2.5 / 3.5 SATA Hard Drive Docking Station with SuperSpeed USB 3.0

 

Is this something that you'd want to be able to carry around with you or just something to store data externally?

If it is the latter and while a bit more expensive, a NAS might be worth looking into.

I'm also looking at enclosure specifications and I've seen some that said tested with up to 4TB. That looks to me that they haven't tested with larger drives, but there is a chance that if it can support 4 TB, it can support 6. I seem to recall that there was a barrier at ~ 3 TB that some controllers couldn't handle, but I don't remember there being a barrier at 4 TB. That being said, it has bee quite a long time, so my memory may be inaccurate.

 

No, you are right. There are some controllers that don't take hard drives of 3Tb and up.

 

3TB is a limitation of GPT vs MBR on the OS/formatting side as far as I know. Any USB to SATA controller should work fine.

OP, you can search for any USB 3.0 to 3.5" SATA enclosure. Pretty much all of them come with a power adapter.

 

Thanks for the replies. I plan on this being a stationary external hdd for home. No real need for a NAS as it's just for a single laptop. Still not sure which adapter/enclosure i should go with as a majority only say up to 4tb. I may just pull the trigger on two of the drives and the cheapest enclosure i can find and give it a shot.

 

Whatever you decide please chine in a let us know either way. We'd sure appreciate the insight.

 

I'd go for a up to 4 TB enclosure, my guess being that they tested with with 4 TB drives and stopped there. As for MBR vs GPT, you are right about the 3 TB limit, but I've also seen some enclosure not like large drives, maybe because they didn't play well with GPT, but the fact remains that I'd avoid any enclosure that isn't at least rated at 4 TB for the OP's purposes.