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What port is this? (ani.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
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Found this old DVD driver in the garage that looks like it was from a laptop. I’d like to use it, but I don’t know what port is that.

I thought it was SATA, but it’s a little bit more taller and narrow, maybe an old revision? Or is it HP proprietary?

Any help is appreciated!

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[–] [S] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Woah, thank you!

Pay attention to the height, there's 12.7mm and 9.5mm drives.

I’ll keep that in mind!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Just to add, you can get hard drive adaptors that fit in the same slot too, so you can have extra storage. They come in a DVD drive shaped caddy with pass through connectors for a laptop SATA drive 🙂

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Thank you for the tip. I’ll definitely look into that, do you recommend any in particular?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I love these, far more useful than an optical drive. The only difference between them will be the bezel, which varies to fit different laptops' shapes. They are completely passive; no components except maybe a capacitor to prevent a power surge when hot-swapping.

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