interestingly, while i was exploiting this same trick for 2.5" drives (for a mini-itx machine with raid), i came across one company that was using "native usb"

interestingly, while i was exploiting this same trick for 2.5" drives (for a mini-itx machine with raid), i came across one company that was using "native usb" drives - i opened up the casing to find that the internal drive had a usb port instead of sata! (iirc it was the ones in a nice, soft-touch black rubber case - WD i think?)