Drive to fit into a Lacie enclosure

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At the moment I back up with time machine to an external 500Gb HDD. I would like to move and store about 60Gb of music and photos from my iMac‘s small 250Gb drive to free up some space. I don’t want to risk storing them in only one location so I am going to get an additional external drive to use in combo with the other. I have an old Lacie Quadra enclosure that I could use to house a bare drive. I can’t remeber the original size of drive that was in the enclosure when I bought it. I’m guessing it wouldn’t have been very large. What size drive would it accept? I won’t need anything enormous, 250 or 500 would be enough. This is the enclosure I have. Alternatively, as I don’t access the pictures or music too often, what other form of secure storage could I use?
https://www.lacie.com/files/lacie-content/manual/d2_quadra_en.pdf

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Drive physical sizes are either 3.5" or 2.5", there is no other size you should need to know, in order to fit in the enclosure. Storage capacity, is how much data you will be able to store on it.
 
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Thank you. I was thinking more about whether the power supply or cooling would still be ok if for example I fitted a 500Gb when it originally came as 250Gb. I can’t remeber the size of the original drive, I removed it from the box and destroyed it when it failed.
 

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I don't think you can use that LaCie Enclosure since it's designed for USB 2, FW 800, FW 400. You would be better off buying a SATA to USB 3 enclosure instead.
 
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Sorry, meant to say my machine is quite old, 12 years old actually. It doesn’t have USB 3. I used it with this same enclosure until the disc failed.
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Sorry, meant to say my machine is quite old, 12 years old actually. It doesn’t have USB 3. I used it with this same enclosure until the disc failed.
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In that case, just replace the drive with one that will fit. I have an older iOmega drive that accommodates USB 2, FW 400, and FW 800 which is still useful for storage but not backups since it's too slow. I've gotten spoiled with my current iMac since it has TB3/USB-C ports which are very fast.
 

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