On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 14:56:51 +1000, FMurtz wrote:

ss wrote:
I currently use an old hard drive as an external, I bought a conversion
kit off ebay and all works fine.
I have now taken the hard drive from an unused virgin top box and
hoping to use that also as an external hard drive. Both are Seagate
3.5, Virgin one 500GB.
I am assuming I would connect it to my PC and reformat. However I am
not quite sure of the connections to make as they are slightly
different to my current external one, as per image.
Any help or advice would be good.

https://imgur.com/a/BZmyhop

Hard drive dock ?

Is the right answer! At least as far as pressing that unused SATA disk
drive shown on the RHS of that image.

More accurately, a SATA docking station, preferably one with eSATA and
USB3 interface options. Rather conveniently, a SATA docking station will
handle laptop sized drives equally as well as the full size 3.5 inch
desktop drives.

A SATA docking station or two makes a very cost effective data backup
system since you can use a collection of 'bare' drives rather than a
collection of 'bare' drives each fitted into their own individually
purchased external USB/eSATA housings (or a bunch of overpriced
'readymade' external drives). It's also an obvious way to give your
undersized retirees from your NAS box a second lease of life as archival
storage backup drives.

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Johnny B Good