Can this drive later be converted to an external drive. My desktop has a few years on it and my next computer is expected to be a laptop.
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Yes, this drive can be converted to an external drive. You will need to purchase the proper external enclosure from a third party. Thanks, Mike
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With some form of conversion kit, but it wouldn't make sense, If you want an external DVD RW, the DVD RW drive with power adapter, etc. would probably cost less than converting this one.
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Thank you for your interest in our products. Any optical drive an be converted to an external burner as long as you have the external case.
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It's a laptop HDD ready to install. If you intend to use it as an external you need to/could buy an enclosure.
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Sir,The drive described will make an excellent external backup drive if you purchase an external cover with a usb connection port and a usb cable for the drive. The two most common form factors for modern HDDs are 3.5-inch in desktop computers and 2.5-inch in laptops computers. The listed Western Digital Drive is designed as an internal drive for a desktop. Respectfully, Lee W. Wood
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That's one of the big flaws in that drive -- after a while the USB connector in the unit itself starts to fail. for the short term, you may be able to jiggle the cord to get some connection, but in the long run it is going to become unusable.
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If your desktop machine is the same as mine, you can add another drive in the removable slot. It must be a sata drive.
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This will work fine just like any other external USB drive. If you don't want it formatted as NTFS, it can be easily formatted as FAT32 or whatever your need is.
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I think the only thing you have to worry about is the type of interface your laptop supports. This drive is an IDE interface, so if the specs on your laptop say it supports an IDE drive interface you should be fine...
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I use it on my Macbook as a time machine drive. I just plugged it in and it backs my machine up without any manual steps. So it can be used as an external without using any of the software that may have been on the drive. I hope this helps
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If you want to use it as an external drive, you can get an enclosure for it. Here's an example of what I mean:http://www.amazon.com/ORICO-2588US3-External-Enclosure-Support/dp/B00FYKRI9M/
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yes, put the hard drive in an external enclosure to convert it into an external hard drive
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It won't be an ideal fit, but you should be able to install the drive without the converter. If the computer shows the drive, it's a problem with the converter, if not you may need to reformat the drive.
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Like most external USB drives, I'd not rely on it for long-term backups over one year. Augment it with a cloud product that is acceptable for the type of data being backed up (i.e. personal, confidential, commercial, etc.). In my experience, none of the disks used in these devices are high-grade, and in commercial applications, we'll go to a NAS with RAID.
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Not internally. These are very small desktops. Like.any other pc they will support an external USB drive.
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This drive has a SATA interface which is usually an internal interface. It could work as an external drive if you have a drive enclosure that converts USB to SATA but even then it's the wrong drive for the application. This drive is meant to be used for recording and streaming video 24/7 and does not have a lot of the error detection and correction functions normally used on a computer drive.
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It would work as a replacement drive in a laptop, the only consideration is if the motherboard will support it's capacity. But, under the conditions that capacity isn't an issue, then, yes, it will work
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will I loose all my data that is already on the 4GB, or is this an additional drive? I tried to use the Seagate 1TB external Computer drive, but it wouldn't work.
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This drive is for a desktop PC,I'm not sure how of if you could hook it up to laptop,search external USB DVD drives on here.