aviationeast comments on What is this connector?

submitted 1 year ago by Fortatech@gregtech.eu to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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I have recently taken apart some old PCs and found an HDD that uses this cable, but my motherboard doesn't seem to have a connector. Is there a way to connect this to SATA or PCIE?

edit: hdd, not ssd

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[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

IDE or Parallel ATA. Its ancient tech at this point. I doubt it goes to a SSD more likely a HDD.

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

You could use it for one, if you had an adapter. I wouldn't though. It'll almost certainly limit performance.

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

There where and apparently still are SSDs that use PATA connections. One of my first SSDs did because I put it in fairly old hardware at that time.

I can't imagine the drive has more than double digit GB though.

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[–] Fortatech@gregtech.eu [S] 3 points 1 year ago

It's an 80gb hdd :/

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[–] Fortatech@gregtech.eu [S] 2 points 1 year ago

yeah mb, its an hdd

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