Are external hard drives just laptop hard drives with a fancy

Nope he's right.
If you even needed to ask then it's you who is retarded.

My external HDD is actually a hdd I took from my boss's nas thatI hot glued into a cardboard box

Small ones are, the larger ones are 3.5 inch HDDs inside enclosures.

You fucking tard.
Do you have someone who looks after you I can talk to?

>>52380012
some of them are even 2 hard drives together, RAID, and other fancy get ups.

>>52380012
They're generally desktop class drives in 2.5" or 3.5" form factor in a USB case. In a lot of older USB enclosures you could pull out the disk. Now some manufacturer are making it one piece so you can't.

>>52380304
what would be the point of taking it out in the first place? Surely an external HDD would be more expensive than one packed and branded as an internal one since the enclosure adds to the cost

>>52380344
SATA is faster than USB.

>>52380344
Converting a gifted or spare external HDD is cheaper than buying an internal one.

Yes. Though sometimes they solder the connector on so you can't just simply crack it open and use the drive.

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>>52380012
the small ones are laptop drives with a USB and power adapter. the bigger ones are the same thing but with desktop drives.

i actually bought some external 4TB drives, took the HDDs out and put them in my server. they were cheaper than internals. i think some manufacturers started soldering the connectors to prevent people from just taking out the drives.

pic related, one of the adapters. top left is SATA and SATA power. bottom right is USB and DC in.

>>52380344
maybe putting a larger new HDD in the same enclosure?

>>52380142
> I took from my boss's nas
did you just take a HDD that was in use or was it a throwaway disk

they are, i broke out the 1tb laptop hard drive from the external i got for 25 bucks, and I'm using it on my thinkpad.

put in another hard drive in the package, and use that as an external one now.