Now let’s get this hard drive installed in your computer. Drive cages, bays, and mounting options Internal 3.5-inch hard disk drives are typically mounted in a drive cage or in an available ...

How to Use Jumpers on a SATA Hard Drive. You don't need a jumper pin on your SATA drive for desktops or servers manufactured after 2002. For older equipment, you can use a jumper on the pins to ...

I am aware of adapters that allow for connecting a laptop hard disk to a normal, 40-pin desktop motherboard. I wish to do the opposite: connect a 40-pin, 3.5" drive to a 44-pin connector inside a ...

Whether you are swapping out a malfunctioning drive for a new one or you simply want to increase your storage capacity, replacing the hard drive on an Asus computer is a reasonably simple task.

Being that this was my first SATA drive, I was surprised at how loose the data connector is, compared to IDE drives.

For the main 3.5" SATA hard drive bay in the new 2011 machines, Apple has altered the SATA power connector itself from a standard 4-pin power configuration to a 7-pin configuration. Hard drive ...