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Title: Put a portable hard drive into my computer.
Post by: Spikes on March 21, 2009, 03:27:45 PM
Well I took my portable WD 120GB passport apart today and I think I'm just going to turn it into an internal HDD. My gaming computer has a 135GB and a 98GB in it already, so I figured why not. Now keep in mind the hard drive was an external, so it's got the firewire adapter still...it's SATA and all so I shouldn't run into any problems. How should I put it in and connect it? Friend of mine said some adapter or something...but I'm not sure which one to buy. Any ideas? I'm just trying to find the cheapest and fastest way to do it. I think I need to connect it directly, since I get the "USB device not recognized" no matter how I plug it in.
Title: Re: Put a portable hard drive into my computer.
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on March 21, 2009, 03:53:16 PM
Quote from: Spikes on March 21, 2009, 03:27:45 PM
Well I took my portable WD 120GB passport apart today and I think I'm just going to turn it into an internal HDD. My gaming computer has a 135GB and a 98GB in it already, so I figured why not. Now keep in mind the hard drive was an external, so it's got the firewire adapter still...it's SATA and all so I shouldn't run into any problems. How should I put it in and connect it? Friend of mine said some adapter or something...but I'm not sure which one to buy. Any ideas? I'm just trying to find the cheapest and fastest way to do it. I think I need to connect it directly, since I get the "USB device not recognized" no matter how I plug it in.

Why would you do that?
Title: Re: Put a portable hard drive into my computer.
Post by: kamori on March 21, 2009, 04:40:33 PM
See Rule #4
Title: Re: Put a portable hard drive into my computer.
Post by: TheZohan on March 21, 2009, 07:23:03 PM
my main drive in my computer is a 160GB 2.5" sata . works just fine
Title: Re: Put a portable hard drive into my computer.
Post by: Spikes on March 22, 2009, 08:29:07 PM
Quote from: MrRiplEy[H] on March 21, 2009, 03:53:16 PM
Why would you do that?
Because the Firewire adapter is bad and I don't use the portable aspect of it anyways, so why not use it as an internal storage drive.
Quote from: TheZohan on March 21, 2009, 07:23:03 PM
my main drive in my computer is a 160GB 2.5" sata . works just fine
Yeah, I know plenty of people who do this.


Anyways, I've figured to how to do this. I stripped it down to just the HDD and I've got a SATA data cable on the way along with the power stuff I need. I'm also getting a new video card and power supply so I think I might wait and put all 3 in at the same time.
Title: Re: Put a portable hard drive into my computer.
Post by: TheZohan on March 22, 2009, 08:56:29 PM
the only thing is bad is its 4200 RPM so not really good for those that do media things..
Title: Re: Put a portable hard drive into my computer.
Post by: Fulmar on March 22, 2009, 09:42:46 PM
2.5" disks can be handy.  Especially if you're doing a small form factor computer like an ITX board or maybe a low performance HTPC.  You can find them in 7200rpm versions.