External hard drive bay help!

[TNortham112]

If I were to run out of room to install any more hard drives in my computer and get an external hard drive bay, how would it connect to my computer? I don't want a NAS system, just want an external hard drive bay to be connected to my computer via a wire(s), but what wires?

[bones369mc]

USB most likely or thunderbolt but usually usb! 

[Aligaterror]

You can just buy external hard drives that connect via usb, but if you already own the hard drives and they are internal ones then you could buy this:

 

http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158210

[TNortham112]

You can just buy external hard drives that connect via usb, but if you already own the hard drives and they are internal ones then you could buy this:

 

http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158210

Ah, ok so with that, would it be ideal to buy something like a drive bay to house the hard drives in, then connect the hard drives to the thing you linked?

also, would that be a similar speed to mounted internal hard drives?

[Aligaterror]

Ah, ok so with that, would it be ideal to buy something like a drive bay to house the hard drives in, then connect the hard drives to the thing you linked?

also, would that be a similar speed to mounted internal hard drives?

It would be fast enough for mechanical hard drives, but SSDs would probably be bottle necked. You could also just buy a adapter cable or a hard drive enclosure:

 

http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812400542&cm_re=usb_to_sata-_-12-400-542-_-Product

 

http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182155