So last night I took the hard drive out of my work laptop (Dell Latitude d820) so that I could use my IDE to USB adapter and scan it for virus's. I like to do that every now and then just to make sure.

So I took it out, and it didn't look at all like what I was expecting. Little did I know that they started making serial ATA laptop hard drives....I had no clue at all. So after I got done being all pissy cause I thought I'd have to buy a new adapter, I took a look at the SATA cables on my main desktop for data and power.

Holy cow, the laptop SATA hard drive uses the same cables as a desktop SATA drive. Sure as heck I just plugged it in, enabled it in the bios, and it was there as another disk in "my computer". I'm so used to things being difficult, that this really kind of shocked me honestly. I mean...it actually makes sense. Go figure.