CTS-120: Chapter 8 Project 8-6

Project 8-6

Practice installing a hard drive

This week’s lab I installed an ATX 500w power supply & two hard drives, one SATA (Serial), one PATA (Parallel), into our class room PC builds. The power supply goes to the back of the PC tower and is held in place by 4 screws. The hard drives are installed towards the front of the PC tower and are also held in place with 4 screws. The SATA & PATA both require different power hook ups and data hook ups. Even though there are adapters to hook up PATA to SATA connections and vice versa it is best to get a motherboard & power supply that supports the drive(s) you would like to have. My motherboard & power supply supports both. After the Hard drives and power supply were installed into the tower all I had to do is hook up the proper data cables between the hard drives and the motherboard, plug in the power supplies to the motherboard and hard drives & case fans. *Note I had to install the 2nd hard drive as a slave (since the DVD will be the master) to do this all I had to do is remove to jumper on the back of the drive. The SATA only has one drive per cable so setting jumps is not need for this type of drive.

Here are a few photos of these installs.

The hole where the Power supply sits