looking for an inexpensive USB 3 HDD enclosure? here you go.
reviews are good.
made of plastic (of course). average USB 3 speeds.
great if you want to have a HDD box to connect to your TV for movies.
so if i take out the hard drive from my usb 2 externals and put it in this enclosure, does it become usb 3? sorry if this sounds massively stupid but ive always wondered why enclosures are so popular
Only if hard drive supports 3.0
Yes you could do that provided that your harddrive is a 2.5" form factor (purely usb powered and not a desktop 3.5" form factor internal harddrive which requires a power brick, so its going to be larger), and that the connection between the internal harddrive and the external port is not soldered on.
Also, unless your internal harddrive in it's original enclosure has the capability to do reads & writes over 60MB/s, there's no point doing this.
USB 2.0 read/write speed limitation is 60MB/s.
People usually get enclosures to "make" a portal external harddrive, because that's what a retail portable harddrive is. It's a branded enclosure with a harddrive inside, that's not designed to be opened too easily.
You get to choose your own internal drive (might be on special or something).
Also with an enclosure you can put a dead laptop's working harddrive in it to make it an external portable harddrive, allowing data to be pulled off in these cases :)
There have been cases of people doing the exact opposite, i.e. buying an external harddrive due to pricing reasons, just to rip it apart and use the internal harddrive of the retail-external harddrive for their computers.
Nothing major but please change SDD in title to SSD :)