Removing HD from Older MBP

[Meb3891]

I have a late 2013 15-inch MBP. Unfortunately, the battery has begun to swell and I'll most likely be retiring the machine. It has a 500GB SSD hard drive. I was wondering, if I remove the hard drive is there an external enclosure I can put it in and use it like an external drive?

I found this on Amazon and wasn't sure if it would work or if there was a similar option: M.2 NVME SSD Enclosure Tool-Free Adapter

Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated!!!

 

[Erasmus]

I've done it in the past with SATA drives, if you can remove the drive and it's not funky encrypted (which I don't think it should be) then everything will be fine.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Or…leave it in, sell the MBP to someone willing to put in a new battery (difficult task but possible), buy an external drive and pocket the difference.