57
What is this connector? (gregtech.eu)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
58 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You found an SSD that uses that cable? IDE SSDs exist, but they’re mostly modern devices for old systems.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Laptops for a while had these on the 2.5 inchers, and then I remember a very small window of time having IDE 2.5 inch ssds, but it was a very narrow window

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    What laptops do you remember with a 2.5" IDE ssd? Microdrive hard drives were more popular in laptops than their CF counterparts just because SSDs were so slow and low capacity. SSDs didn't take off until right before NVME era.

    Disk on modules existed, but those were for industrial PCs and nothing a normal person would ever actually use.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •