Adding old drives to new PC?

[roymax]

I have a new PC arriving shortly:

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But I wondered whether there was any reason why I shouldnt take the drives from my old PC and add them to the new rig for additional storage.

The old drives are:
2TB + 8GB SSHD Hybrid, 7200rpm, 64mb Cache, 3.5" - Seagate Desktop ST2000DX001
240GB SSD Solid State Drive

I had an intermittent GFX issue with the last PC which is 5yrs old and has pretty much died my only concern is that the issue I was having might in some way be related to one of the drives (which I think is a long stretch) but just wanted to check. There is nothing I particularly need on those drives it juts irks me to throw them away (I don't want to add them to my cable/adapter/useful things I will never use again collection).

 

[ubuysa]

They're both SATA drives so there's nothing to stop you installing them.

I note that you've ordered with no OS and if one of those drives has your old Windows system on it be aware that you can't use that Windows system, you need to install your own copy. (You can transfer the license though).

 

[Gavras]

I swapped my drives across to my new PCS machine, really easy, especially as I had asked PCS (via online chat) to sort out the cabling for my drives, it was then really really simple to connect them. Ditto with my own graphics card.

PCS are really good if you ask for certain things sorted (within reason) for the build.

 

[roymax]

They're both SATA drives so there's nothing to stop you installing them.

I note that you've ordered with no OS and if one of those drives has your old Windows system on it be aware that you can't use that Windows system, you need to install your own copy. (You can transfer the license though).

Yes I plan to transfer the license and thought that when I add the older drives I would format them so the license will no longer reside in 2 places.

@Gavras good thinking about speaking to PCS, clearly I didn't do that in advance as I hadn't thought it through

 

[ubuysa]

Yes I plan to transfer the license and thought that when I add the older drives I would format them so the license will no longer reside in 2 places.

Oh definitely format the drives. You never want two Windows boot partitions unless you're deliberately dual booting.