Moving footage from an old drive help

thefilmaddict

thefilmaddict

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I am backing up a bunch of old drives today. Most of them have usb connections. My oldest one is made by g-tech. It’s called the g-sata 1000. It has 2 ports on the back of it labeled serial ata. I can’t remember if I used to use this with a mac or a pc. It may have had a card with it that went into the computer, not 100 percent sure. But I need to figure out how to connect it to an iMac using usb or thunderbolt 3. Any ideas?
 
IIRC, you could use a dual cable like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-3-Pack-Y-Cable-Adapter/dp/B00VJ9V8NY

And plug it into the 4-pin power port in an adapter like the one mentioned above.

If that doesn't work, take the drive out of the enclosure (if you feel comfortable with it...it's done all the time and that's what I did in the past) and it will most definitely work with just the adapter above.

Ideally you'd only use a dual SATA to USB, but I can't find any of those.
 
I'm also realizing it has a weird 5 pin power supply which I can't find. Painful. I wish I backed this up a long time ago. Thank you guys for your help!
 
It's much easier when you take the drive out, there's nothing to it. (A lot of drives needed to be powered separately back then.)

But it's all just another example of how messy technology was for like 50 years...but that's what makes it beautiful and it has so much history!
 
That Amazon adapter has/comes with its own power supply so it would power the drive and you'd use the USB3 in your Mac (I'm assuming you have USB3 as another thread of yours mentioned using older Macs).
 
Yeah...old.

lol, j/k.

Should work fine; inexpensive/returnable to at least try but I'm confident it will work.
 
Yeah - I assumed no since the OP didn't mention it, and I figured two drives showed up as usually was the case with these back in the day, but I guess there's always a chance.

And in that case, which RAID as it still might be readable without its main controller.
 
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