can a 2.5 hard drive work inside a 3.5 external enclosure?
November 24, 2010 - 9:05 pm
i want an external enclosure with a *fan* and can’t seem to find one for a 2.5 hard drive. so i figured i would just get one for a 3.5 hard drive. that way i can use it with all my hard drives, but i don’t know if that will work.
What type of harddrive do you have ?
PATA (IDE) drives connector are different between the 2.5" and the 3.5". But on SATA drives they’re the same.
So you can run 2.5" SATA drives in 3.5" enclosures, but not if you have PATAs (IDEs)
November 25th, 2010 at 2:50 am
What type of harddrive do you have ?
PATA (IDE) drives connector are different between the 2.5" and the 3.5". But on SATA drives they’re the same.
So you can run 2.5" SATA drives in 3.5" enclosures, but not if you have PATAs (IDEs)
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November 25th, 2010 at 3:17 am
It can work, but it depends on a few things. If the drive and enclosure are both SATA then you just need a 3.5" bay adapter (basically a piece of metal to screw on the side of the 2.5" drive so it fits in a 3.5" drive bay). SATA power and data connectors are the same on both 2.5" and 3.5" hard drives.
On the other hand, if both drive and enclosure are IDE then you need another adapter, one to combine 3.5" power and the 40-pin IDE connector into the single 2.5" 44-pin connector used on laptop IDE hard drives. If you buy a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter kit it usually includes both the drive bay adapter and the power/data adapter.
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