How To Connect External Hard Drive With Sata Cable
Some external hard drives draw their power from the usb.
How to connect external hard drive with sata cable. Sata cables are long 7 pin cables. Connect the old hard drive to the enclosure carefully. Sometimes both adapter and esata cable are bundled with the drive. Drop the hard drive into the slot and turn the dock on.
Confirm the interface of hard drive ide sata or pata. The esata cable will plug into an esata port. Micro center tech support shows you how to connect a hard drive to your computer externally through a usb cable hard drive adapter review. Pay attention to the external power supply.
Attach the other end of the sata cable to your crucial ssd. Connect the sata cables to the hard drive. If you re using an adapter you ll need to use the appropriate side of the adapter it has a side for 3 5 ide 2 5 ide and sata. Attach the enclosure to your desktop or laptop by using the usb cable.
Please note that some usb to sata adapters have a pair of sata interfaces thus to connect two sata drives you need only one adapter. To install the ssd as a secondary drive not your primary or boot drive use a sata cable and attach one end of the cable to the sata connector on your motherboard. The port the connecting cable the power supply and the external hard drive ehd can all suffer from physical and or electrical faults. You ll need an esata cable as well.
Then use an available sata power cable coming from your system s power supply and connect the cable to your crucial ssd. If the power cable does not fit easily check to make sure that it is not upside down. Connect the dock to your pc just like you would connect an external drive. Connect the insulated power cable with the wider tip into the larger connection port situated on the left rear of the hdd.
Both ends are flat and thin with one often made at a 90 degree angle for better cable management. One end plugs into a port on the motherboard usually labeled sata and the other such as the angled end into the back of a storage device like a sata hard drive. If you have a spare expansion slot you can use an esata bracket or an esata card. Connect the data cable to the smaller sata port on the hard drive.