Notebook as an external hard drive?

Can you use your old notebook as an external hard drive for another notebook?

You can also simply remove the hard drive from the old notebook and then use it

Of course you can. A complete notebook is more susceptible than a simple external hard drive. But of course that works, and I've done it before to bridge a time

Basically yes. To do this, you have to release the notebook on the notebook that you want to use as a hard drive in the network and integrate it as a network drive in the others.

? What for? He just wants to move data back and forth. I assume he has a cable

So is something like a cloud in your own network?

I do not know how to do it. So I don't think installing is because my notebook is already very thin anyway

Do you absolutely need a housing for this?

How do you mean? So external hard drives always have a housing to protect the hard drive from dust. I think the bare hard drive would be very susceptible to dust damage. But external hard drives don't cost the world, you get relatively cheap, large capacity ones.

Expanding is always possible

Yes, but do not install. And I don't want to buy a case because it won't be worth it.

Then you remove your old hard drive and get an adapter so that you can use your old hard drive via USB.