All right. I need some advice. I have a PC question for you and also for our audience. I'm just going to kind of crowdsource the advice here a little bit because I can't screw this up. Yeah, the personal computer. I can help you with that. Yes, the IBM compatible. Yeah. Okay. I'm sure you must have tried this at some point in the past. I need to power some hard drives hooked up to a computer but not off the power supply running that computer. Yeah, you can buy a thing that does that. I have it right here. No, no, no, no. You're, you're okay, for the audio listeners out there, which is 100% of you. The thing you just held up is some kind of like SATA to USBC thing. Yeah. You plug the USBC into the computer and then you just jam the other end into the into the butt of your hard drive. Also this is this is four hard drives and I think they might be 7200 RPM so that might not cut it. So you get four of those. Okay. I've got an extra ATX power supply. Okay. Here's what I have. this is like weirdly hard to research or I have not been able to find a lot of like very definitive.

Yes, this is how you. power supply. Okay. Here's what I have. This is like weirdly hard to research or I have not been able to find a lot of like very

definitive.

Yes, this is how you do this.

But what I've gathered looking online is that you can plug the drives into the ATX power

supply.

Yep.

And just bridge those two pins, right?

The whatever, whichever, whichever two pins it is on the 24 pin ATX connector, you can just kind of jump it. Yeah. So I used to do that with a paperclip. You'd cut a piece of paper clip off and fold it over and jam it across the two pins. So I don't even have to do that. I've got my good C-Sonic power supply came with like an official one of those that you plug into the thing. A jumper. Does it have a resistor on to put a little bit of load on it too? I don't know about that. So I was going to say the thing that a jumper does it have a resistor on to put a little bit of load on it too i

don't know about that so i was going to say the thing the thing that i would do is i'm sure somebody

makes one i i have i don't actually own one but i'm sure somebody makes a thing that you plug into the

at x connector that does the jump or puts a switch across those uh across those pins and also puts a resistor so you get a load on whatever

rail you're supposed because because the thing and it may not be a problem on new power

supplies but at least in the old days you always had to make sure you put a resistor on on that

because if you ran the power supply without any load on or with too low a load then bad

things would happen what kind of bad things?

So this is what I'm worried about.

Oh, okay.

This is what I'm worried about because it's for basically brand new hard drives.

It's the ones I bought last year on Black Friday sales and stuff.

I'm finally three years after I bought that USB enclosure to do backups from my server.

I think I think that enclosure has been sitting here on the floor for three years.

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