How to Use Multiple External Hard Drives

Video Transcript

"This is Zach with Expert Village and today I am going to talk to you about using multiple external storage devices on the same computer. Here you can see we've got two drives. The bottom is already connected with the USB connection in back of the computer. The top one is a firewire drive. If you have enough available ports on the back of your computer for the type of external storage device you are using you could plug your drive straight into the back of the computer. Some computers might not have any available ports because they might be taken up by other devices. That is the good thing about firewire and hard drives is that most firewire hard drives allow you to daisy chain them together so that if you don't have enough ports on the back of your computer, you can plug one drive into the other like that. They should both show up on your desk top. "