Windows 10: Why do external HDD enclosures have capacity limits listed?

I have never bothered to try to find this out. I am shopping for replacement HDD enclosures that can be used with my router for a large-capacity network drive. The only question I have is why do Manufacturers specify that enclosures have limits on the capacity of the HDD used in them? For example, one model may advertised as supporting drives up to 2TB while another is advertised as supporting 4TB and another 6TB? Is it a limitation of the power supply used or is it a limitation of the controller? Or is it something else? Windows 10 doesn't care when it comes to the capacity of any external drives on the market today.

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List of external hard drives compatible with windows 10?

New external HDD's would all be universally compatible with all modern Windows versions .

- The external HDD enclosure needs to have connection options that suit your PC.

If your case has an eSATA port you will want an external HDD that has an option for eSATA connection

as this provides the same speed and an internal HDD.

USB 3 is also preferable to USB 2, which is the slowest option, but an external HDD with USB 3 only will

still run well from a USB 2 port.

- Value per Gigabyte increases with larger capacity.

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create a back up drive from an old hard drive

Hi Bob,

Look at the information provided with this link.

Disk enclosure - Wikipedia

You need to do some research before you purchase an enclosure. What type of hdd is in the "old" computer? Does the present computer have USB 2.0 or USB 3.0? These are considerations before you purchase an enclosure.

Price a name brand external hdd along with an enclosure and compare. You need to prepare a hdd in an external enclosure before you copy files to it. What is the speed of the hdd in the old computer? These are all considerations to research.

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Brenda

 

Here's some info:
HDD external enclosures and capacity limit - Hard Drives - Storage

 

From the link: "That said, if an enclosure supports 3TB (48-bit LBA), then it should also support

4TB and beyond."

That is my thought too. No manufacturer is going to intentionally limit the capacity of his product (an enclosure) unless he is using parts that limit capacity for reasons not relating to the host computer's OS. It's crazy.