Timeline for Connect a 2.5" (laptop hard disk) SATA hard disk to Desktop PC
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| Feb 1, 2011 at 15:04 | comment | added | Lawliet | @iconiK I only wanted to make sure because I got mixed answers to this questions: some said "yes yes, no problem, perfectly safe" and others "DON'T DO IT, I fried my hard disk by doing so" etc, and I don't want to risk my hard disk be fried | |
| Dec 28, 2010 at 13:48 | history | migrated | from serverfault.com (revisions) | ||
| Dec 28, 2010 at 13:31 | comment | added | Mircea Chirea | @Lawliet, how is it safer? SATA is standardized, including the data and power connectors, there is no danger involved even with 1.8" drives in a desktop (though the connectors are slimmer on these and you need an adapter). | |
| Dec 28, 2010 at 13:30 | comment | added | Mircea Chirea | @joeqwerty, it's stupid as you lose a lot of the transfer speed the drive can do for no good reason; even with USB 3 there is 10% or more loss. USB is stupid for a hard-drive, especially when there's a perfectly good SATA port available. | |
| Dec 28, 2010 at 13:13 | comment | added | Lawliet | @iconiK, for performance: yes it's not the best solution, but safer to experiment with. | |
| Dec 28, 2010 at 12:55 | comment | added | tmow | @joeqwerty: thx a lot, iconiK it's right for the performance loss, but I've advised it to avoid any hw failure, the answer of SwenW seems anyway the good one :-) | |
| Dec 28, 2010 at 12:43 | comment | added | joeqwerty | @iconiK: Why is it stupid? USB is a valid way to connect the drive to a desktop PC. Maybe it's not the way you would do it, but it's not stupid. Also, calling someone's answer stupid is not the way to ingratiate yourself to the members here. | |
| Dec 28, 2010 at 11:29 | comment | added | Mircea Chirea | Why use USB? That's stupid. | |
| Dec 28, 2010 at 10:26 | history | answered | tmow | CC BY-SA 2.5 |