Moving a laptop HDD into a desktop PC

I've got a broken Acer laptop sitting around—thinking about pulling the HDD out to use as extra storage alongside the SSD in my desktop.

What kind of gear should I look for on Amazon or Best Buy to make this happen?
Speccy shows my current setup as:
ASRock B85M Pro3 motherboard and the memory is
RAM Memory slots total Memory slots 4 used Memory slots 2 Free Memory slots 2 Memory Type DDR3 siz 8192 MBytes Channels
Total memory slots 4
Used memory slots 2
Free memory slots 2
Memory
Type DDR3
Size 8192 MBytes
Channels # Dual
DRAM Frequency 799.6 MHz

Is it possible to reuse the laptop RAM too—do I need specific adapters or anything like that?
Any good guides out there that walk you through the whole process?

You really won't be able to use that laptop RAM in a desktop—not with that ASRock B85M Pro3 motherboard you're working with. It's just physically impossible; the sticks won't fit into the desktop slots, no matter how hard you try. Honestly, trying to make it work would be like trying to squeeze an elephant into a Mini Cooper—it's just not happening, and there aren't any adapters out there that can bridge that gap. As for the hard drive from the laptop, though? You actually can reuse that. Most laptop drives come in a 2.5-inch form factor, which is the same size as an SSD, so you should be able to pop it right into your case—assuming you have an extra slot available for that size. If you don't, you might have to pick up an adapter, which usually runs about 20-$10.

Larry Ortiz5 said:Regarding putting a laptop hard drive into a desktop, I guess you definitely can! They usually come in that standard 2.5-inch size, which is the exact same thing used for SSDs, so you should be able to slide it right into a chassis if you happen to have an extra slot available for that size; otherwise, you might just need to pick up a little adapter, which I think costs somewhere around 20-$10.

Honestly, I actually ended up using a cardboard toilet paper roll as my own makeshift adapter! I just screwed the drive onto it and managed to wedge the whole thing into a 3.5-inch bay 🤣

With my other drive, even that felt like a bit too much effort, so I just let it hang there by the cable, and it actually works perfectly fine, even though I've moved apartments three times over the last two years! 👍