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Can I use the HDD from my laptop in a self-built PC? (self.buildapc)

submitted 9 months ago by berryjam to c/buildapc

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Laptop battery recently died, and I'm planning a new PC build anyway, so I'm wondering: can I just remove the HDD from my laptop and connect it to the motherboard? Would I need any extra parts or hardware? I'm guessing no, but it's hard to research on my phone. Any guidance is appreciated :) thanks!

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[–] Vinny_93 -3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wait - people still use HDDs?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I use rotational hard drives to store backups and to store video. Rotational drives aren't very good at fast random access, but I don't really need that for those tasks.

[–] sylver_dragon 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're big and cheap. My "server" (desktop with delusions of grandeur) has an array of 3 2TB drives (Western Digital WD2003FZEX) running in a ZFS pool. I run Nextcloud and sync all my photos, videos and documents to it. I don't need high speed storage, just a lot of it. Back when I built it (maybe 8-9 years ago) those drives were a reasonable price for that much storage. If I were to re-build it again today, I'd still pick spinning rust over solid state drives. I can get 8TB drives for ~$180. For the same price, I'd get far less space on a solid state drive and the extra speed wouldn't be useful.

Buying the newest tech isn't always the right choice. You should pick parts which fit the use case.

[–] Vinny_93 1 points 9 months ago

I have a server with 40TB of HDD storage. But my home pc only has SSDs, preferably NVMe.