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What is this connector? (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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[–] Laser@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Btw I recently learned that there were more protocols that used this cable than just IDE / PATA, there were some proprietary optical drives that used this cabling but could be damaged if connected to an IDE port. Was from a YouTube video and can't access history right now but long story short you had to use a port on your soundcard that had the same physical pin layout but was different electrically.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes there was a window of time where it was common that a CD-ROM drive was sold with a sound card and they would connect using the same type of ribbon cable. I worked for an OEM PC assembly company and installed many of those.