Swapping HD's in the same external enclosure.

[Shrikery]

Hey all.
I just got myself an 4TB external HD and i'm wondering if i would i have much luck in replacing the 1.5TB drive in an older Verbatim external enclosure with the new 4TB so that i could put the Verbatim drive internally into a new PC build? I'm being picky really, as i like the Verbatim enclosure because it has a good on/off button on the case.

 

[Elixer]

Maybe.
Depends on the controller they used, some of them won't work with bigger HDs.

 

[corkyg]

As long as your PC can handle 4tb drives, it should make no difference. I think my Vantec external case is on its 3rd upgraded HDD.

 

[Shrikery]

To be clear, i'm talking about 2 separate external hard drives rather than a swapable external drive enclosure.
I think i'll just transfer the data on the older 1.5TB onto one of the other externals and put that drive into the PC without any external swapping.

 

[Dahak]

As Elixer said, depending on the controller in the Verbatim enclosure, it could be that it is too old to properly detect the full size.
I would say also depending on the external hdd it might be a usb only connector on the drive but those are usually on the laptop size portable drives