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22 minutes ago, rmathiasen said:

I'm looking into replacing a dvd bay in one of my computers with a 2.5" hdd bay. I would have clearance of 12.7mm for my 2.5" hdd. The problem I'm having is that I can't find anything in this form factor above 2TBs. I know Segates go up to 5tb if you go 15mm, but that won't fit. Is there anything that is higher than 2tbs that would fit in this drive? Thanks.

Unfortunately for 9.5mm thick 2.5" drives, 2TB is about all you can get at the moment... You can get SSDs that are higher capacity (I believe up to 4TB) but every time I look at the cost of a 4TB SSD, it makes my eye twitch...

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I'm looking into replacing a dvd bay in one of my computers with a 2.5" hdd bay. I would have clearance of 12.7mm for my 2.5" hdd. The problem I'm having is that I can't find anything in this form factor above 2TBs. I know Segates go up to 5tb if you go 15mm, but that won't fit. Is there anything that is higher than 2tbs that would fit in this drive? Thanks.

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I suspect the difficulty is simply because more vertical space is needed to fit more platters and drive heads. Can only fit so much data in 2.5" surface area.

 

Any particular reason why you don't buy a 5.25" to 3.5" bracket and install a regular hard drive?

 

Examples:

0. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16811993004

1. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994210

 

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22 minutes ago, rmathiasen said:

I'm looking into replacing a dvd bay in one of my computers with a 2.5" hdd bay. I would have clearance of 12.7mm for my 2.5" hdd. The problem I'm having is that I can't find anything in this form factor above 2TBs. I know Segates go up to 5tb if you go 15mm, but that won't fit. Is there anything that is higher than 2tbs that would fit in this drive? Thanks.

Unfortunately for 9.5mm thick 2.5" drives, 2TB is about all you can get at the moment... You can get SSDs that are higher capacity (I believe up to 4TB) but every time I look at the cost of a 4TB SSD, it makes my eye twitch...

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27 minutes ago, mariushm said:

I suspect the difficulty is simply because more vertical space is needed to fit more platters and drive heads. Can only fit so much data in 2.5" surface area.

 

Any particular reason why you don't buy a 5.25" to 3.5" bracket and install a regular hard drive?

 

Examples:

0. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16811993004

1. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994210

 

Because I'm installing it in an old ThinkPad laptop. Thanks for the suggestion though.

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7 minutes ago, Razor Blade said:

Unfortunately for 9.5mm thick 2.5" drives, 2TB is about all you can get at the moment... You can get SSDs that are higher capacity (I believe up to 4TB) but every time I look at the cost of a 4TB SSD, it makes my eye twitch... 

Thanks. That what I figured but I wanted to make sure. A SSD that big is too expensive and doesn't make sense for media storage like I'll be using it for.

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