I have the other USB3 port installed and tested in the RecRoom now. All fine.

I have the other USB3 port installed and tested in the RecRoom now. All fine.

A side benefit is that I found a spare 3m HDMI cable that had been misplaced. I swapped that into the Lounge PC (though it was a Herculean effort to plug it into the back of the TV). I'd also found a couple of plugs on the graphics card I'd installed on the RecRoom PC (in order to play Space Engineers) and it transpired that they were HDMI! That means I can now use the 4K monitor in the RecRoom properly! Win win today.
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I installed one of the USB 3.0 cards in my Lounge PC this morning.

I installed one of the USB 3.0 cards in my Lounge PC this morning.

The installation went smoothly, though I had to scavenge an power cable splitter from the defunct Studio PC to get power to it. Installed the driver and then tested it on an external hard drive that I know has USB 3 capabilities. It went a LOT faster than what I was used to! The next test was the docking I'd bought earlier this week. I had to turn it off, make sure the 3.5" was firmly plugged in, and it worked!

The image below is the internal 3D PROJECTS drive in the dock being read by Win10. Just like having a big clunky USB stick! This means that that I get my dodgy drive back, I can plug that in and test it as well, without fiddling around with the innards of any of my PCs. Something worked for once! :D
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I bought a couple of these yesterday, to install into my surviving PCs.

I bought a couple of these yesterday, to install into my surviving PCs. Should make copying stuff to and from them a lot quicker. Anyway, scrolling down the info page I found THIS.

"No explosion"? I am SO GLAD to read that, even if it's a bit like seeing a sign about a toilet seat that says "will not electrocute user". :P
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http://www.orico.cc/goods.php?id=6583

Looks like I don't actually have a USB 3 port on my two PCs!

Looks like I don't actually have a USB 3 port on my two PCs! Admittedly they're older motherboards, but I can add some anyway. Why do I need them? Well it seems that the Hard drive dock runs on USB 3, not 2. Still, I've heard this is a lot quicker than 2, so other copying operations like backups might benefit from this as well. Looks like a trip tomorrow.


While I mention that Dock, it seems to have an "offline cloning facility". You stick two drives in and you can (assuming the 2nd is big enough) clone the contents of one to the other!!! That's one way to backup.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/2043035/how-to-add-usb-3-0-to-your-desktop-pc.html

Well I now have the Studio PC sorted. Not with what I wanted, but what I needed.

Well I now have the Studio PC sorted. Not with what I wanted, but what I needed.

I popped into the computer shop where the PC had been built, and had a discussion with the guy who runs it. Having the PC repaired will cost a minimum of $40 for the service charge, plus whatever was needed. And it might break down again. However, $40 would also get me a USB DOCKING STATION for 2.5" and 3.5" SATA hard drives. So that's what I bought. I'll just dismantle the PC and if I need to, plugin any 2.5" or 3.5" SATA Hard Drive that I need to recover.

I'm greatly relieved at this solution. If and when I get a newer PC it'll probably be a laptop.
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