What are the largest TB capacity hard drives that can be used in the various external enclosures? I currently have some docks and enclosures that have 6TB, 8TB & 10TB limits. I'm looking for docking stations & enclosures that can handle the newer 20TB or larger drives. None of the tech spec pages on the website list drive size capacity.
@Kenneth Montgomery The chipsets used are generally designed for at least 8TB, but there is no official capacity limit. All currently available drives, that is up to 22TB, have been tested to work with our multi-bay docking stations.
The SATA-to-USB or SATA-to-SAS bridge chip in the enclosure must support the sector addressing scheme used by the drive (e.g. 512e, 4Kn) and must not overflow its internal address registers. Some older bridge chips were only tested up to 8 TB or 10 TB, so manufacturers list that “max” even though the chip might work with larger drives.
