An old drive does not have to stay in a drawer: in the right enclosure it works on as an external disk. The type decides which enclosure suits — 2.5 inch SATA enclosures are for laptop drives and take their power from USB, 3.5 inch ones are meant for desktop drives and need a separate power supply, and M.2 enclosures accept NVMe drives. Speed depends on the interface: a USB 2.0 enclosure holds back even a fast drive, USB-C 3.2 does not.
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An old drive does not have to stay in a drawer: in the right enclosure it works on as an external disk. The type decides which enclosure suits — 2.5 inch SATA enclosures are for laptop drives and take their power from USB, 3.5 inch ones are meant for desktop drives and need a separate power supply, and M.2 enclosures accept NVMe drives. Speed depends on the interface: a USB 2.0 enclosure holds back even a fast drive, USB-C 3.2 does not.