-: In this lesson, I'm going to teach you
how to install storage into your computer.
Now for our demonstration purposes,
I'm going to be using two different storage devices
to show you both ways.
The first is going to be a 980 pro which is a two terabyte SSD.
This is actually going to be using an M.2 form factor,
and it's going to go directly into our motherboard.
The second thing we're going to be using
is going to be a SATA hard drive.
In this case,
I'm going to be using a Western Digital black series
which is a 7200 RPM SATA hard drive so it goes pretty fast,
and this is actually going to be connected
through a SATA power and SATA data cable
using both the 15 pin and seven pin SATA cable types,
and I'll show you how to do that on this particular case.
Now in this particular case,
we are going to be using the SATA mounting brackets
that are located on the underside so we'll do that second
and we'll focus first on our M.2 connector
which is right here on the motherboard as you can see.
When we connect the M.2, it's going to be going into this slot
and then it will be connecting through that screw
on the backside to hold it into place.
First, I'm going to take that screw out
so it's no longer in our way.
So first, I'm going to unscrew that one screw,
being careful to have my ESD strap on
in case I accidentally touch
any component on the motherboard.
And once I get that little screw out,
we can go ahead and get our SSD drive,
and in my case, this is a two terabyte SSD.
You'll notice it essentially looks
like a little memory card almost
and it's a very small device.
You'll notice at the top it does have the retaining pin
for us to screw into, and the M.2 form factor at the bottom.
Let's go ahead and put this in.
We'll go ahead and get this right into here.
These are going to come in at basically
a 45 degree angle into the slot.
There is a notching to tell you
where it goes in the right place, and then once it's there,
you're just going to lay it down
and then screw in the retaining screw.
There we go.
Now, sometimes things can get in the way
such as the video card
or the video input capture card that we have,
and if that is the case for you,
you can simply unscrew those, pull those out,
put in your M.2 SSD, and then put those cards back in.
It just depends on how much room you need to work.
Now, when you're doing different upgrades,
you'll usually be dealing with something like this
where it's already a built computer
and you'll be moving around other components,
but if you're building it from scratch,
you could choose to put these things in
before you put the motherboard in the case
just like you did with the memory and the processor
and that way it's easy, it's already there,
and it's out of your way
before you put all your expansion cards in.
The next thing we're going to do
is we're going to flip over the case
so we can access the SATA drive
and we're going to put our hard drive into that bay.
So what we're going to do is flip this case over.
Now that we have flipped over our case,
you'll see there are two places here
for us to put hard drives.
These are going to be three and a half inch SATA hard drives
that can go in this place or IDE or PATA hard drives
if you're using one of the older methods,
but we're going to be using SATA
because that's what this motherboard supports.
Now as we go in here,
you'll notice there's a bunch of cables
that are being hidden by our case already
that were shoved into this particular hard drive cavity.
We're going to use these later on.
This is things for the case power, the jumpers, the headers,
and all those front pieces that are on our case
and that'll allow those ports to work,
but we're not going to worry about that just yet.
First, we're going to worry about our hard drive.
So let's put those off to the side,
and then I want to make sure that I have my SATA cable
from the power supply, which I do right here,
and I'll pull that out so it's ready for me to access.
And now, we're going to get our hard drive
and our hard drive comes in an anti-static bag.
We'll just go ahead and open this up,
and then we have our hard drive.
Now, our hard drive is going to tell you how large it is,
in this case it's a four terabyte model,
and then you can also see
the different connectors on the back.
We have our data seven pin SATA connector
and our 15 pin power connector, also SATA,
using those to be able to power this drive
and then transfer the data to it.
And then over here, you do have some jumpers
that you can use
depending on your settings and configurations.
For our purposes, we don't need to worry about those,
we just need the two pieces of SATA cables,
the data and the power being connected.
So what we're going to do is we're going to grab in our case,
and this has a little tray that we can pull out
by grabbing on the corner and pulling,
and once we've done that, we can then simply grab this.
You'll notice there's a couple of little nubs on this case
and then there's places for a screw on each side.
So you want to line up the nubs
on the bottom of the hard drive
and that way it can go into position.
And then once you get the four plastic retaining pins
on either side, you're going to flip over the hard drive
and you'll notice there's a couple of screw holes
here on the bottom and we're just going to put those in
so that the hard drive doesn't slip around
in case those little plastic pegs break off.
And so we'll simply put that in
and screw it in all four of those corners.
So there's the first one.
The second one.
The third one.
And the fourth one.
Now that we have all of those,
we are going to put this back into position
by simply sliding it back in
and it will catch on those plastic clips.
We will then take our SATA power cable
and we will go ahead and plug that
into the power cable port,
lining up the L shape with the L shaped connector
from the plug, and that'll just clip into place,
and then we need a data cable.
So I'm going to grab a SATA data cable
which is a seven pin L shaped connector.
This also has a nice little retaining clip
that will go into place and hold it onto the hard drive,
and we're just going to go ahead and plug that into place
by making sure that it fits onto the L shaped connector,
and we'll snap it into place and you'll hear that click.
Now on this particular case, the motherboard is underneath
so I'm going to actually feed it through this hole
like we did earlier with our different power cables,
and then we'll be able to plug that
into the motherboard here in a second.
Additionally, I'm going to take these other cables
and feed them through as well so we can plug those in
after we get our storage connected.
Right, now that I've gotten the case turned over
and all of the cables routed through,
I have my SATA connector data cable on my right hand
and all of the different case and port cluster connectors
on my left hand.
So I'm just pushing those out of the way for now,
we'll deal with those in a minute.
But first, we need to give data support
to that hard drive we just installed.
So we're going to take this L shaped connector
and we're going to plug it into the SATA port
here on the bottom of the board.
So I'm just going to bring that over to the side
and I'm going to slide that right into one of those SATA ports.
And it just clips into place like that.
All right, now we're going to go ahead
and connect all the different cables
that go from the case to the motherboard.
Now in general, you're probably going to want to do this
earlier on in the build
because these are very small connectors,
they're going to very small pin outs,
and they can be hard to get.
In my case, I actually couldn't get to one of the pin outs
so I had to remove the Elgato video capture card
so I can get to that back corner
and I'll put that in at the end.
So what we're going to do is grab our cables
that we brought through, we have six different cables.
This big one is going to be used for the header cluster
with the USB ports on the front of the case
or the top of the case.
We also have an audio cluster here.
We have our reset switch.
We have our power LEDs, plus and minus.
We have our power switch.
And we have another USB header.
So we're going to go ahead and find these on the motherboard
and plug them in.
The first one is all the way in this back corner
which is the audio.
All the way back here by where the Elgato was hiding.
So I'm going to go ahead and take that one first
and I'm going to just make sure that I can get it over there
safely without tangling up any of the other wires,
and then we're going to go ahead and place that into position.
And this is a nine pin connector
that actually takes the place of two rows of five.
And you'll see one is missing
and that's the one you can line up to make sure
you get it in the right direction for this piece of audio.
Now I'm going to go ahead and get it in here.
There we go and we'll just pop that into place.
Now, if you're having a difficult time with these,
you can use tweezers to hold them in place
and get them into the right location.
The next one we're going to do is this one
which is part of our USB cluster,
and this actually goes over here
on the middle side of the board
back between the video card and the processor.
So I'm actually going to run this cable
underneath my video card so it's out of the way
and once it's out of the way,
we can just go ahead and plug that into the motherboard
almost like plugging in a regular USB cable
into a USB port, and you can see it's plugged in
right here into the motherboard
into what looks like an internal USB slot.
Next, we're going to do the LEDs
and the power and reset switches.
Now, these come into a part of our motherboard called JFP-1,
and I learned this by looking at my motherboard's manual.
So every motherboard is a little different
and it may label things a little bit differently,
by checking your manual for your case and your motherboard,
you can make sure you understand
what pieces go to which places.
Now, in this particular case of JFP-1,
there's actually 10 pins there on the board
but they're actually going to be broken up
with different connectors that are going to them
such as the LED minus, LED plus, the reset switch,
and the power switch, and so you have to check your manual
to know exactly where they're going to go.
In my case, we need to do this
starting at the edge of the motherboard
with the power LED plus and minus,
and then to the right of that in positive three and four,
we will have the power switch plus and minus.
Then on the side closest to me,
I'll have the hard drive LEDs and the reset switch,
and that is going to be pins one through eight
out of this 10 pin set.
So I'm going to try to do this and show you as best I can
but it is a pretty tight space,
so if you can't see at all while I'm doing it,
we'll at least show you a picture after what it looks like.
So I'm going to be taking the power LED plus and minus,
and the plus is going to go in pin one,
and the minus is going to in pin two.
Now, when I was trying to put in those tiny little cables,
it was really hard to get them in
so I had to actually take out my graphics card
in order to get to them on the board
and you can now see over here in the back corner,
we have all of those underneath there
hiding beneath that cable.
All right, and we have one more
that we need to do for the board
and that is this cable right here,
and it goes right next to there
and so it's going to go right into this particular spot,
and clip it into place.
Now that I've done that, I can put my graphics card
and my video capture card back into the case
and we will be done installing those cable components.
Now, don't be afraid if sometimes you have
to take a component out to get another component in
just like I had to do with that video capture card
and that graphics card because they were in the way.
Now, once you're done with that,
you want to go ahead and make sure you connect everything
back that you unplugged.
So in my case, that would be the dual power
for this graphics card.
I'm going to do that with the six plus two connector
turning it into an eight connector,
and then we'll be able to put that right into the card.
We now have our card properly powered,
we can push those cables out of the way.
We also want to route all of our cables out of the way
so they're not blocking any of our fans,
they're not catching on any of our components.
To help with that, you can also use cable ties
and zip ties as needed to clean this up,
bunch those up, and get them out of the way,
and then you can seal up the case
and you will be ready to go with your brand new PC.