Mounting a laptop HDD in a desktop?

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Mounting a laptop HDD in a desktop?

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So I want to mount my laptop harddrive in my desktop for hot swapping... any recomendations?

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all you need is a little $5 converter and then just plug the sucker in. I used to run one of my silent rigs a few years back off a laptop drive made it nice and quiet.
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but is it still hot swappable?
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no since it IDE i tried hooking it up to a SATA converter but its still not HS.
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