How do i access my hard drive?

My flash storage drive is full and I have a vacant 2TB SATA disk, but how do I access it?  In Windows PC it was easy to access drives under "My computer," where is the analagous feature on the mac? THANK YOU!

You should reformat the 2TB drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) if it's not already, use a program such as the Disk Utility, Carbon Copy Cloner, or SuperDuper to clone your existing system to it, confirm that it works, and make a copy on a second drive before deleting the files from the original one.
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