3.5 hard drive help

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I recently had a hard drive taken out of an iMac g5 as the screen was broken and it was too expensive to fix it says Wd 35 is there a wire or an adaptor I can buy for it to work?thankyou
 
I'm assuming it has the connector style of the drive on the left:
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If so, there's a load of USB docking stations available so you won't even need to take a screwdriver to anything to connect it. (y)
 
Sabrent EC-DFLT SATA Lay-Flat Docking Station
I’m going to go for this one any thoughts on this product before I hit purchase
 
Little as possible I see the cheapest ones come from China but I’m not wanting to wait so long so I’m going with a uk supplier thanks for your input
 
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Well a few of the Amazon reviewers say they had trouble with the Sabrent recognising large (3Tb+) drives, but if your G5 drive is smaller than that, then it seems like it should be okay.
 
Also beware of heat buildup on that style (as mentioned by some reviewer/users) when the drive is active for prolonged periods.
 
One is a wd caviar se 250gb
The other is a maxtor 20 gb d540x
I won’t be using them for long periods so I don’t think I will need a fan but thanks for the advice
 
Well, G5's used SATA drives, confirmed in post #3, so I think the WD'll be okay, but I agree that little Maxtor could be a problem.
 
Snapsh0t said:
eBay has some 20GB 3.5" SATA Seagates on offer.
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Buyer beware.
There's a muppet on ebay who doesn't know SATA from PATA; their Seagate 20Gb SATA's have primary/slave jumper setting instructions on the label, exposing the mistake.
 
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