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‎12-27-2023 12:18 AM

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Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Trying to add a  2nd 3.5" hd to the bay. There is an open slot at the bottom, there's an extra hard drive power plug for it but no sata plug. no extra sata port to mother board either? there is a small 2.5" 120 gb ssd (partion or c: drive?) In the top bay P4, then my main 1tb hd in the middle P5, now my extra 1tb hd on the bottom P6. There are 3 hd bays, three power cords going to them and 2 data cords. What am I missing here?! Help!

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‎12-27-2023 07:15 PM

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@stevevan1818 , welcome to the Community.

 

If you don't have a SATA port on the motherboard you can use a "Y" adapter to connect to one of the other SATA data cables.

 

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