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The boards from 2.5" external HDD that have usb/firewire connectors on them and not IDE/SATA/scsi, can they be send in as low grade hard drive boards ?

Like these?

Gonna depend on the board, low or high peripheral likely for most.

(I realize two of those are for 3.5" drives)

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An adaptor that is xtype-SATA is usually high peripheral if it has its own controller chips.
If not its connector end

The hard drive board is low grad hard drive

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There's no boards directly off a hard drive in that image, their all from external enclosures I took apart and use occasionally still.

But if one of those boards has everything to qualify as a hdd board then I guess that helps answer Austin's question.

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no not the adapters that plug into the hdd. some external hard drives have a board on the hdd with usb/firewire and not sata/ide

like this

Oh!

Never seen that before. Probably low grade (or worse if the lack of substantial gold pins makes a difference)

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I seen them on a lot of newer 2.5' external mechanical hard drivers, I was thinking the same thing about the lesser number of gold pins.

Low grade hard drive board

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Sorry I was responding to Austin directly not to your post. ;)

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No worries, I wasn't sure so figured I'd clarify if there was any confusion with the picture

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