How to Connect Serial ATA Hard Drives

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Hi! I’m James Adams and I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com and right now we’re going to talk about serial ATA hard drives that’s spelled SATA is the newest kind of hard drive and it’s the easiest to install on a PC. So what I have here is a serial ATA hard drive and I flipped it around so you can see the connectors from the bottom, there isn’t a whole lot of missing with this so first you need to identify the different parts where the cables go. This one is long connector right here, this one is for the power and the power connector looks like this and you can see that it’s about the same length as the power connector and there really isn’t a wrong way to connect it cause if you try to put it on backwards it simply will not go in. Then the second connector you have which is right here. This is the data connector this is where thin cable like this connects and as you can see right there, it’s about as big as a connector and just like the power if you try to connect on backwards it’s simply not going to go in. I’m going to explain now how to install this hard drive in a PC now that we’ve got the connectors identified, so now to connect the cables into the hard drive we need to open the PC and it’s really simple, this PC has two screws, some PC’s have three screws, some PC’s have thumb screws but it’s always the same you can use a screw driver if you have screws or you can use your hand if you got thumb screws and all you do is just take these two screws off, put your hand on the panel, push down on hit and then just slide and then the panel just comes off like that and you’re ready to go inside your PC and begin work. So here we have a shot of the motherboard on the PC and the serial ATA data cable connects to this connector, in my case my computer has four and the way to connect it it’s really, really simple you take the cable and you snap on it, if it doesn’t go in on the first try all you have to do is flip it and connect and that’s it your data cable’s connected to the motherboard and now it’s ready to be connected to the hard drive. So now we have the data connector all connected to the motherboard ready to go on the hard drive but that’s just part one, now we need to get power to the hard drive and some powers supplies come with a SATA connector ready to go but if your power supply doesn’t one and all you have are these white connectors, you can go to your store and pickup an adaptor sometimes hard drives come with adaptors too, you see it’s got a white end and then it’s got two black connectors ready to go on a serial ATA. So the way to connect this is really simple, to take the one on your power supply you take the one on the extension and you snap it on like that…and then you’re ready to plug this in into the serial ATA hard drive.

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