Old Laptop HDD

[Tkwon]

Hey guys, Tony here

 

Is it a good idea to re-use my old laptop's hard drive or my new build? My old laptop has been about 7~8 years old.

[RileyTheFox]

1 minute ago, Tkwon said:

Hey guys, Tony here

 

Is it a good idea to re-use my old laptop's hard drive or my new build? My old laptop has been about 7~8 years old.

As long as you can connect it to your Desktop rig go for it. It should be noted though that it's probably a low tier drive so don't expect very good speeds  

[DarkEnergy]

If it's a SATA interface then sure, use it. But use it as a storage drive or as an external drive, put an SSD in your new build 

[Faster_Speeding]

I'd recommend not reusing an old hard drive if it's been well used as they have a limited lifetime (long but limited and based on use) and older hard drives are more limited than newer ones and other things may have also degraded it. Especially as a main drive.

Edited December 29, 2016 by Faster_Speeding

[Guest lilbman]

Because of the age I wouldn't put anything valuable on it because it could stop working at any moment, and then the data that is on it won't be able to be taken off.  You'd have to send it off somewhere to do that if it fails and that can be expensive.