I have a couple WD 4TB 2.5" drives and a big WD 8tb 3.5" drive that are old USB 2.0 externals in their factory enclosures. If I take out the drives and put them into a USB C 3.2 or Thunderbolt drive boost the transfer / read / write speeds? Something like this? https://www.amazon.com/Inateck-Drive-Enclosure-6Gbps-FE2014/dp/B09SNXJ464/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=3.5%2Binch%2Busb%2B3.2%2Bhard%2Bdrive%2Benclosure%2Bexternal%2Bsata%2Bhdd%2Band%2Bssd%2Bcase&sr=8-6&th=1

or do I need to buy an actual USB C drive like this?
https://www.amazon.com/UnionSine-Portable-External-Storage-Compatible/dp/B0B7RRQGFQ/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=UnionSine&sr=8-4&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.17d9e15d-4e43-4581-b373-0e5c1a776d5d&th=1

Or do I need to open up the externals to see what types / speed drives I have in there? Also, if I can just buy the enclosure, the drives are just plug and play in there right? I don’t need to download drivers or format them or anything right?

TY in advance

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No. The hard drives themselves are the bottleneck at ~200-250MB/s, ~1.5-2Gb/s. USB 3.0 is ~480MB/s, 5Gb/s.

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