Installing new HDD for Powerspec G357
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Can anyone give this newbie a walkthrough of installing a new HDD? Recently bought a g357 with a 500gb ssd and I want to upgrade it by installing a seagate hdd
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Greetings GhostFusion! Welcome to the Community. This case is a bit sneaky on where the drives reside. Once you remove power from the computer, remove the left side of the computer case (one with the glass in it) and down at the bottom. There is a shroud that hides the power supply and hard drive. That is where you can install other hard drives
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Okay thank you! and does this build have the necessary cables to connect the hdd?
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Hello @GhostFusion, if your looking to add another drive typically a sata cable will be needed. The power supply should have plenty of sata power options to connect to the drive. If you have problems removing the power supply shroud, you may need to access the area by removing the other side (solid) panel.
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Hello, I’m back again with another question. I have found all the cables I could use in my pc. I found the sata cable to the power supply but not to the motherboard. Am I missing these cables?
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If it helps these are the cables I have found
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Welcome to the forum, @GhostFusion. Those would be the SATA power cables. The cable you are missing is a SATA data cable, which are not included with the system. When you buy brand new motherboards, you often get SATA power cables in the box, but when buying motherboards in bulk for mass production, accessories such as cables, driver disks and motherboard manuals are excluded. If you have a spare SATA cable from an older system, that will work just fine, however if you need one, we carry a wide variety here: https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?N=4294961055+4294822441+4294821922&sortby=pricelow. If you have any questions, let us know!
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