Internal HDD Plug and Play?

[simplehuman]

I have a 1tb hardrive on my pc but its reaching its limits from music samples that I use for production. I have an extra 250gb wd blue hdd in an old pc and was wondering if I could just remove it and plug it into my pc and move all my samples over? after deleting the old os off it of course.

 

[Twigman]

Assuming that your computer has a spare sata data and power connector then there is nothing stopping you. All an external hard drive is, is a sata-(usually usb) bridge. Take the bridge away and you have an internal hard drive ~

 

[Wolfshadw]

Yes, you can certainly move that hard drive into your current system and use it for storage, assuming you have the correct data connections (SATA/IDE) ports for the drive.

-Wolf sends

 

[jsmithepa]

Question like this confounds me as I just built using a full sized Mobo with 8 SATA connectors, and silly me am just using 1. So comeon down, gimme all you SATA drives 'cuz I got more ports that I know what to do with! 😀