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    External To Internal HDD

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by pmassey31545, Nov 2, 2009.

  1. pmassey31545

    pmassey31545 Whats the mission sir?

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    I have looked to no avail. Can I take an internal HD and use it in my lappy? Assuming of course it is a 2.5". Is there any way to tell the Ext is SATA vs. IDE?
     
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  2. kisetsu17

    kisetsu17 Took me long enough

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    I haven't heard of a 2.5" IDE drive, and most definitely newer external harddrives, 2.5" or otherwise, are already on SATA interfaces, since the IDE is getting old already, I think.

    But yeah, maybe 2.5" kinda already means SATA.
     
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  3. pmassey31545

    pmassey31545 Whats the mission sir?

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    Whaaaaaaa? Unless I'm mistaken, IDE/ATA is what we had before SATA. The old 40 pin(I think) interface for HDD's. And part of my fear is that "they" took all those old IDE's and put them in enclosures to be used as Ext.
     
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  4. Ole man

    Ole man Notebook Evangelist

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    I've got a 2.5" IDE drive sitting in a box under my desk. I think you hurt his feelings.
     
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  5. kisetsu17

    kisetsu17 Took me long enough

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    Oh. Sorry about that. :D

    I went in not knowing about the 2.5" IDE drives. But well, the more recent 2.5" external hard drives kind of use SATA nowadays, right? I was hangin' around a computer store and I watched as a service rep opened up a 2.5" Sony (or something ;)) external harddrive, only to find out that it's an ordinary SATA HDD.
     
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  6. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    All new external HDDs use SATA, but some of them (esp. the small 2.5" ones) use a proprietary connection.
     
    Lithus, Nov 2, 2009
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