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Written by llewelly on 2025-01-17 at 17:22

I have some external hard drives I use for backups. None were purchased with an enclosure, but I have a few external hard drive enclosures that I purchased separately.

Is there any reason to purchase a hard drive that comes pre-packaged in an external hard drive enclosure?

If I decided I wanted a different hard drive in an external hard drive enclosure that had been pre-packaged with a hard drive in it, would it be difficult to swap the hard drives?

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Written by Hirvox on 2025-01-17 at 17:40

@llewelly ease of use is one key factor, especially when accompanied with a laptop. Theoretically all you'd find inside is a SATA <-> USB 3 adapter, but some of which I have opened up have not worked with a different make of a hard drive. It's probably solvable by a professional, though.

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Written by llewelly on 2025-01-17 at 17:48

@hirvox

thank you. In all honesty, if it wasn't just a SATA <=> USB3 inside, I'd probably get all confused and not know what to do, maybe I better stick with buying the enclosures separately.

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