Hard Drive Cables

Video Transcript

" 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’ve flipped it around so you can see the connectors from the bottom. There isn’t a whole lot of missing with this but first you need to identify the different parts of where the cables go. This one is long connector right here; this one is for the power. The power connector looks like this, you can see that it’s about the same length as the power connector, and there really isn’t a wrong way to connect, because if you tried to put it on backwards it simply will not go in. And 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. Just like the power, if you try to connect it on backwards simple 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. "