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Is the Internal Hard Drive Replaceable?

April 26, 2017Internal replaceable

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Is the Internal Hard Drive Replaceable?

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The question is whether it’s possible to replace the drive inside the case with another SATA drive. We might want to do this when the 2TB drive eventually fails. Or maybe we simply want to use the 2TB drive somewhere else and swap a different SATA drive into this case. The answer is no. I tried a 1.5 TB drive, a 750 GB drive, and a 500 GB drive in the case. None of these drive work. After applying power to the USB adapter with the other drives attached, the LED blinks on and off. The USB adapter also doesn’t spin the drive up. If I try to do anything with the drive in Disk Management, it would say access denied. If you are able to get any other drive to work, please let us know.