Hi guys, this is Eddie the Magic Monk. Welcome to another technology tutorial
as you can see in front of me I have three hard drives and one DVD ROM Drive
that I have taken off old computers and I would like to still use them so here
is what you need to do in order to use these drives on your computer without
having to put them physically put them inside the case some step one on ebay
I'd like you guys to look up a SATA docking station
okay so a SATA docking station means that you can simply connect your hard
drive to the station and then connect the station to your computer and then
your computer will recognize the hard drive or dvd-rom drive without having to
physically put the hard drive in your computer so the one that I had purchased
is the one that you can see on the screen right now so it's this one right
here right this is the one that I have purchased and it costs $22.03.
It's a
pretty good deal because it's actually working for me I'm not sure if it'll
work for you guys but it is working for me okay so you're going to buy one of
these okay so once you have received one of these docking stations what you're
going to do is connect one of them to your hard drives now because all of my
hard drive have SATA connections so you can see if you have had a look on
my DVD ROM Drive tutorials you would have seen that
basically all the hard drives or DVD ROM Drives they have a SATA power
connection and a SATA data connection so that's a longer one and the shorter one
and basically what you're going to do is match that with the SATA connection on
your docking station so I'm just going to plug it in like so, so plug it in and
now it's plugged in so the docking station is connected to your hard drive
ok now the next thing you're going to do is connect the docking station to
firstly the computer as well as the power cord here is the power cord that
the docking station also needs so you're going to connect so here I am connecting
the power cord to the back of the docking station ok and then when that's
done I'm also going to hook up the power so plug this into the wall socket and as
you can see the red light lights up the red light lights up once you have
connected it to the power adapter ok the last thing you want to do is connect
your docking station to your computer via USB so here's a USB cord connected
to your docking station I'm just going to turn this around so you can see so
here is the power cord here is the USB cord so I'm connecting this to my
computer so this is going to go to my computer and see what happens so you can
see here that as soon as I have connected to my computer it's recognized
my hard drive and I can simply click open folder to view files to use the
hard drive ok thanks guys for watching see you
next time.