Good day all,

so I have been practicing on donor HDDs and using this forum to find answers.

But why would anyone want to convert USB HDD to SATA one. what are the benefits?

Is there some weird HDD noises or signs when you should do it?

Thank you for your time,

Raitis.

Professional data recovery tools work best when they have direct firmware level, SATA access to the HDD rather than via a USB-SATA bridge. Ordinary user level tools don't benefit as much.

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In addition to the above reply given to the OP , you get better speed from using SATA and you can do things like build head map which you cannot do on USB.