Adapt a 2.5" laptop SATA hard drive to a desktop computer Vancouver Computers
When SATA hard drives and optical drives were introduced several years ago, the data and power
connectors used were the same for both laptop and desktop drives (unlike the older...
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Adapt a 2.5" laptop SATA hard drive to a desktop computer Vancouver Computers
When SATA hard drives and optical drives were introduced several years ago, the data and power
connectors used were the same for both laptop and desktop drives (unlike the older IDE or P-ATA
drives, thank goodness).
BUT - their form factors are different. A desktop drive is 3.5 inches/90 mm wide - a laptop or
notebook drive is 2.5 inches/63.5 mm wide. That means you can put a laptop drive into a desktop, if
you can mount it and are willing to accept the slightly lesser performance of a laptop drive (typical
desktop hard drives spin at 7200 rpm, while typical laptop drives turn at 5400 rpm).
I have a customer's HP Slimline s7320n computer on my repair bench right now. This Dell Inspiron
computer review machine was manufactured to be a small desktop computer - it uses a laptop CPU
(processor) so that there is less heat generated from the computer. The hard drive was removed
from it by a previous owner (the driv
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