Would it destroy a drive to put a laptop sata drive in a desktop? I wouldn't think so but I also don't have any spare sata drives, nor can I afford one.
I've used a laptop drive in my desktop for well over a year before I replaced it with an SSD. Never had any issue.
By all means do it.
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The only problem you might have is fitting it securely into a hard drive bay, you can get a tray for that if you really want to secure it. Most SSDs are about the same size.
Otherwise, if anything it will work better/longer in a desktop just because of less movement to potentially damage it over time.
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Sure you can, without any issue.
lol i have my Debian server runing with 3 5400rpm 500gb laptop drives right now
just use duck tape to secure them someware,, i genrally put them ontop of the dvd drive
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meh, you can mount them however and they're usually fine as long as you don't touch them
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