Why your PC should have a hard drive dock
The single best damn accessory you can buy for a PC is an internal SATA hard drive dock. No, not the crappy external USB kind, the internal built-in SATA kind. Why? Because: 0. ZERO compatibility issues with anything. It's SATA, works with USB boot stick, Hiren's Boot CD, UBCD, all other boot media, all third-party utilities, etc. 1. It lets you plug in another hard drive and make hot backups daily. 2. It lets you remove said drive and replace it with another in about 5 seconds. Meaning now you have both hot (online) and cold (offline) backups, and are proof against nearly every virus out there (including ransomware). Good for weekly, monthly and quarterly backups. 3. It lets you take your backups offsite; now you are proof against disaster. (Hey, a 10 months old backup is better than nada .) 4. It lets you migrate your current HDD/SSD to a newer, replacement, and/or larger HDD/SDD very easily. Which is ...