Hard Drive Question

[r3dhawk]

I was just curious if you could take apart an external drive and use it as an internal?

 

[Eddyisgreat]

depends.

is it really old? It might be an IDE drive which won't fit in any of the Macbook Pros.

Is it a western digital my passport essential? It might have one of these funky sata to USB bridges affixed to the board.

(from http://arstechnica.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=81794)

 

[r3dhawk]

i have this one

 

[thecarrot]

yeah mang i dunno dont think itll work im sorry

 

[Giuly]

Take it apart, if it's a regular SATA drive, it'll fit. Else, reassemble it.

 

[Eddyisgreat]

Take it apart, if it's a regular SATA drive, it'll fit. Else, reassemble it.

nah. Too much of a gamble. Whilst the 1TB might be rare enough to forge these modifications, the five year warranty is nothing to sneeze at. Crack that open and it's all gone since you'll probably have to snap something.