Hi guys i was wondering if i will benefit from converting my 6-7 years old HDD into an internal Sata drive for my PC.
I'm using it only for storing purpose and i'm gonna take another 4 TB external hdd for all my film and movies.

The drive is the WD Elements Desktop 1 TB wich should contain a WD Caviar Green

When i runned Crystal benchmark it scored only 33 mb/s (both R and W) using the USB 2.0
I've seen a video from 2011, the guys just removed all plastic and stuff and he got the sata drive.

Will it benefit from converting it into a sata drive and put it directly in my PC's case?

 

Last edited: Dec 1, 2015

Probably, but there are some other factors which are important, e.g. what kind of SATA-connection does your drive got ? There are currently three types of SATA-standards. Even if your HDD does only the SATA I connection, you probably benefit from a switch (USB 2.0 does have a maximum of 480 MBIT/s, whereas SATA I does have 1500 MBIT/s [dividing MBIT/s with 8, you will have the maximum and real speed of how much MBYTE/s you got]). There's also the factor, of how speedy is your HDD from itself, without looking at the connections. Most 2,5" HDD's only have a maximum of 5400 rpm, which mostly ends up between 80-150 MBYTE/s, which doesn't mean that it wouldn't pay out switching from USB 2.0 to SATA, because SATA is always faster (but you'll probably will miss your mobility).

 

thanks as soon i buy a new 4 TB HDD, i'll convert my old 1TB to sata

 

make sure to backup your old hd onto the new one befor messing around with it
one knock can mess it up, been there ,also have a read here about static
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.ca/static-hard-drive/

 

why you want to do that since external drive is more expensive than internal one
and when you do that , there is a risk of loosing DATA

 

i sorta did this a few years back, HD of my dad's comp had to be replaced and there was a HD shortage so the normal build in ones were kinda expensive, bought an external one, took the casing of and build it into his system. if you have a bit of experience then it shouldnt be a big problem to do this