sata adapters

[joemegahertz]

Hello, I searched through the forum before posting this so if it has been answered already, my apologies.

I have a goflex net with alarm installed and working. Im in a quest for better speed and storage space. I am currently using a 3 tb usb 3.0 drive over the usb 2.0 connection and getting round bout 25-30 mb/s. I assume hooking a drive up to the sata ports would give me a speed boost. However the official hd's don't have nearly enough room. I've read I can use any 2.5 drive on the system, however I've read also it won't be as tight as fit and I don't want to cause additional wear on the hds. I was hoping a adapter was made that would go from my usb 3.0 connection to the sata ports. However everything I seem to find is to take a sata hard drive and connect it to a usb port. My hds are powered over usb no I wouldn't think I would need a additional adapter for power. If anybody could help a guy out with other a link or point out some fallacies or bad assumptions or a better idea it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx everyone

[moonman]

Why not use 3.5 hdds? Works fine. If you are worried about power wd green is a good choice.

[Socaltom]

If you open up that USB 3.0 enclosure, you will find it has a SATA hard drive inside. Assuming its a 3.5 inch drive it won't fit in the slot, you could rig an eSATA port and find an eSATA enclosure.
Tom

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'W')hy not use 3.5 hdds? Works fine. If you are worried about power wd green is a good choice.

[moonman]

I have goflex home but afaik it's the same. No adapters, it is powered by gfn or gfh itself. I've used 2 different 7200rpm drives and it everything worked fine. I have a 5900 rpm drive in it now.

[joemegahertz]

thanx

i just had a very stupid idea or a good idea. Could I just remove my 2.5 usb hdd from the housing like mentioned in a above post and get a standard sata cable to go from the flex to the hdd? I may have been over thinking all of this lol!

[ebbix]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'I') have goflex home but afaik it's the same. No adapters, it is powered by gfn or gfh itself. I've used 2 different 7200rpm drives and it everything worked fine. I have a 5900 rpm drive in it now.

[Socaltom]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joemegahertz', 't')hanx

i just had a very stupid idea or a good idea. Could I just remove my 2.5 usb hdd from the housing like mentioned in a above post and get a standard sata cable to go from the flex to the hdd? I may have been over thinking all of this lol!

[moonman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ebbix', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'I') have goflex home but afaik it's the same. No adapters, it is powered by gfn or gfh itself. I've used 2 different 7200rpm drives and it everything worked fine. I have a 5900 rpm drive in it now.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ebbix', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'I') have goflex home but afaik it's the same. No adapters, it is powered by gfn or gfh itself. I've used 2 different 7200rpm drives and it everything worked fine. I have a 5900 rpm drive in it now.