3rd-party under-2TB hdd with Seagate Expansion/WD Elements closures?

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loveleeyoungae

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Hi,

I'd like to buy an external desktop drive (Seagate Expansion and/or WD Elements).

As I heard around that SG/WD external closures use 4096 sector reading chip, would they still work properly if we change the internal hdd with another under-2.1TB hdd from 3rd-party manufacturers?

And if we take out the internal hdd from those SG/WD closures and put it in a Windows 8 PC as a secondary DATA drive (NOT as boot drive), would it run properly right away or we still have to do some initialization procedure thing (which would erase all existing data)?

Thanks.
 
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lonewolf7
By default almost all enclosure's use 4096 sectors, and so the internal drives and WIN 7 OS.

And the answer is YES for your second question, it will run properly as a second HDD, and you wont have to do anything, and you wont loose data.

External drives are not reliable cause they can fail anytime without any real reason, so be careful using it. Good luck.
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By default almost all enclosure's use 4096 sectors, and so the internal drives and WIN 7 OS.

And the answer is YES for your second question, it will run properly as a second HDD, and you wont have to do anything, and you wont loose data.

External drives are not reliable cause they can fail anytime without any real reason, so be careful using it. Good luck.
 
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