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A note about data preservationĪ you move hard drives from external enclosures to an internal installation (or vice versa), the formatting and contents will likely be preserved. I’ve had the latter happen, and rather than discarding a perfectly good hard drive, I simply installed into a machine. More specifically, if an external drive fails, it could either be the disk drive itself, or it could be the USB conversion circuitry. There’s one additional scenario worth considering: external drive failure. There’s one less external box to deal with, and the drive will probably operate faster internally than across a USB interface.

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Moving an external drive into a PC is generally done as a convenience. Can I Use an Internal Hard Drive from an Old Machine as an External Drive on a New One? covers the topic. While moving an external drive into a computer is possible, the reverse is actually much more common: moving an internal drive into an external USB enclosure.

Drive speed is typically not a limiting factor when placed behind a USB interface, and slower drives also run cooler, reducing the need for an external drive to include powerful cooling fans, or perhaps any fan at all.

My expectation is that drive manufacturers use their slower drives in external boxes.

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There are a few things to be aware of before you crack open that box, however.

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So yes, open the case and you’ll likely find a standard hard drive you can then install directly into your PC. Depending on the drive, there might be an external power supply, or “ brick”. Most external hard drives are simply standard hard drives in a box with an additional circuit board that converts their native interface to USB. Inside that external hard drive is an internal hard drive. However, there are a few caveats to be aware of.

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But seeing how they’re listed on Apple’s official Mac Pro spec page now, it seems likely you’ll be able to buy them when you configure a Mac Pro this fall.In most cases, the answer is a resounding yes. We also don’t have pricing and availability on the R4i or its J2i counterpart yet, which fits up to two drives instead of four. Since Promise apparently worked with Apple, it’s still not quite clear whether the new MPX Modules (which use both traditional PCIe and a second “all-new” PCIe connector that provides more power and data over a special Thunderbolt 3 backbone that Apple built into the new Mac Pro) are something just anyone can build for, or if you need approval and support, and possibly need to pay Apple some licensing fees like you do if you’re building for the Lightning connector on an iPhone.Īpple hasn’t yet replied to our request for comment about how the MPX Module idea will work more broadly. (Presumably, the redundancy of RAID 5 means we’re talking about 24TB of actual usable storage, since it comes with four 8TB, 7200RPM magnetic drives.) The product page says the new Pegasus R4i in particular counts as a bona fide MPX Module, one that adds up to 32TB of storage in a prebuilt RAID 5 array, meaning your data can survive in case one of its four hard drives happens to fail. Promise, known for its Pegasus external RAID arrays and rack mount hard drive solutions, says it worked with Apple to announce versions that you can insert directly into the PCIe slots in the new Mac Pro. But we do have our first indication that the Mac Pro’s fancy new MPX Modules may not be a totally proprietary solution, in the form of two upcoming storage modules from Promise Technology that will be sold in Apple stores. Apple’s new Mac Pro is the supercar of desktop computers, but it’s also trying to be a modular, upgradable workstation, and it’s not yet clear how Apple has balanced those two things.