Is there any way to plug a USB 3.0 HDD into a USB 3 Motherboard Header?

[Gameskiller01]

You can check this thread to see why I want to do this, but basically I opened an external HDD and it has no SATA, so I want to use the USB 3.0 Micro-B to USB 3.0 Type-A cable that came with the HDD to somehow connect it to my motherboard. Plugging it into a USB 3.0 Header should be possible with a 3.0 header to 3.0 Type-A Female adapter, right?

 

[littleleo]

Probably not, Tap the header and connect it to the front IO connector of your case if it is USB 3.0, and plug your hard drive in the front USB port on the front of your case.

 

[Gameskiller01]

Probably not, Tap the header and connect it to the front IO connector of your case if it is USB 3.0, and plug your hard drive in the front USB port on the front of your case.

I may as well have left the Hard Drive in the enclosure if I was going to do that. I want it to be internal, and not only is the cable it comes with not long enough to reach the front panel, there's no place in my case to route cables from the inside to the outside.

 

[blockhead78]

wouldn't just using a usb 3.0 female to 20 pin adapter work?

 

[Gameskiller01]

wouldn't just using a usb 3.0 female to 20 pin adapter work?

Theoretically, but I know that sometimes things don't work out the way you expect them to, especially when it comes to using adapters, so I was just making sure.

 

[blockhead78]

technically it should work, as effectively the usb 3.0 connection from the motherboard to the case mounted usb 3.0 ports are the same thing