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It's a standard drive with the USB connector built in. WD had a thing for doing that years ago. You're better off using it externally through a USB 3 cable. 

Good day! I have a question - can i use this external drive in my PC without a usb-b cable? It doesn't look like SATA so maybe it can't be used as an internal hard drive. Your thoughts?

 

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That is not SATA, that is a USB standard. You would need a cable to use it. However if you want that drive to be internal, buy one of these

Hot Sale USB 2.0 Motherboard Header 9pin Motherboard to 2 Ports Dual USB 2.0 | eBay

(they also make them for usb 3, it's a much bigger connector)

plug it into your motherboard header and plug the drive into that. Then you've got an internal drive! (I've done this...)

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Its not SATA at all. That's a drive that has a USB adapter built in which is.. uncommon (i'm still reading about it, trying to find out what it was originally sold in.)

 

Its a USB Micro-B connector. 

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Just now, Haraikomono said:

I think he means the pins next to the usb port ?

Is that pata ?

No, those are jumpers to activate/deactivate settings for the HDD. I had a similar drive (it was broken) that was in a WD Passport and it had those jumpers.

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Looks like it was sold inside the WD My Passport 1TB external drive. Instead of building the SATA>USB adapter into the enclosure, they built it into the drive. 

 

Interesting. 

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Just now, FakeKGB said:

No, those are jumpers to activate/deactivate settings for the HDD. I had a similar drive (it was broken) that was in a WD Passport and it had those jumpers.

always wondered what they were, thanks for the info

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1 minute ago, Haraikomono said:

I think he means the pins next to the usb port ?

Is that pata ?

lol nope. That's so that manufacturers of drives can configure extra things for different models of drives, there are jumpers that go on there. (Not all drives have it... but some do. Some internal, some external...) PATA is massive. 44 pins, not 8.

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Just now, rickeo said:

Interesting. 

Quite so, quite unusual

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1 minute ago, FakeKGB said:

No, those are jumpers to activate/deactivate settings for the HDD. I had a similar drive (it was broken) that was in a WD Passport and it had those jumpers.

Oh, intersting

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6 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

That is not SATA, that is a USB standard. You would need a cable to use it. However if you want that drive to be internal, buy one of these

Hot Sale USB 2.0 Motherboard Header 9pin Motherboard to 2 Ports Dual USB 2.0 | eBay

(they also make them for usb 3, it's a much bigger connector)

plug it into your motherboard header and plug the drive into that. Then you've got an internal drive! (I've done this...)

Hope I could help!

I thought i could avoid it. Alas.

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3 minutes ago, Covelight said:

Quite so, quite unusual

it was the trend with external drives for a while, thankfully it never became common

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1 minute ago, GDRRiley said:

it was the trend with external drives for a while, thankfully it never became common

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It's a standard drive with the USB connector built in. WD had a thing for doing that years ago. You're better off using it externally through a USB 3 cable. 

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29 minutes ago, Covelight said:

Good day! I have a question - can i use this external drive in my PC without a usb-b cable? It doesn't look like SATA so maybe it can't be used as an internal hard drive. Your thoughts?

 

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is that normal? Ive never seen that before! Id it normal to have usb on hdd?

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1 minute ago, WillLTT said:

is that normal? Ive never seen that before! Id it normal to have usb on hdd?

No, it's not really normal. WD did it on some of their portable drives from years ago. 

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It looks like that connector is soldered directly onto the controller board in place of the standard SATA power and data connectors, so the chance of being able to use it internally is zero.

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17 hours ago, BondiBlue said:

No, it's not really normal. WD did it on some of their portable drives from years ago. 

They still do on their 2.5 drives, don't they? 

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