Often times I see external drives on sale for cheaper than an internal HDD. I know that opening up an external hard drive voids the warranty, but would you recommend it? Are the drives inside an external HDD any different than other HDD's? If not, then can I just pry the sucker open and put them into my PC?
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Removing HDD's from an external HDD??
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Blazestorm
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You may void the warranty with the company that makes the enclosure, but the drive itself may still have warranty with seagate or western digital... or whoever makes it.
They are identical to internal drives, except older ones tend to be IDE drives... if it supports E-SATA or it's a newer drive like 1TB drives which are all SATA... then you can guarentee it'll be a SATA drive...
I've taken 3-4 external drives apart, so far they've all been IDE but they were older drives...
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I've seen everything from refurb, to normal warranty (3-5 yrs.), to external case warranty (1 yr), drives come outta those things. It's a definate crapshoot.
For me, it's just a drive warranty issue.
For me, it's just a drive warranty issue.