What kind of Hard drive is this?

[jnelsoninjax]

I found this hard drive on the ground and picked it up, but I do not recognize the interface, can someone help me?

[Jim K Global Moderator]

IDE ... that weird connector is an adapter for notebook OEMs (not sure what it is called).  You can pull it off and plug a regular IDE cable into it.

 

Edit:  Sorry!  I forgot you would need another adapter as it carries data and power.  Something like this (for your desktop)

 

Anyway ... if you pull that black connector off you would see 44 pins.  40 are for data (IDE) and the other four are for power.  They are arranged like this, well, because it went into notebooks.  

 

This might clear things up?

[JustGeorge]

You found it on the ground? Where do you live, Cybertron?

 

Wish I'd find a Ryzen or an i7 while walking around....

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

37 minutes ago, Jim K said:

IDE ... that weird connector is an adapter for notebook OEMs (not sure what it is called).  You can pull it off and plug a regular IDE cable into it.

 

Edit:  Sorry!  I forgot you would need another adapter as it carries data and power.  Something like this (for your desktop)

 

Anyway ... if you pull that black connector off you would see 44 pins.  40 are for data (IDE) and the other four are for power.  They are arranged like this, well, because it went into notebooks.  

 

This might clear things up?

Jim is correct, it's a 2.5 laptop IDE. Used it back in the 1998 days

[jnelsoninjax]

You found it on the ground? Where do you live, Cybertron?
 
Wish I'd find a Ryzen or an i7 while walking around....

You and me both!

[Mando]

ahh an old ide 2.5" Seagate momentus....man they were gash drives. 

[+Raze Subscriber²]

See if it contains any CIA/NSA secrets.   Ya never know....

[Tidosho]

It looks like it's from an old Dell Latitude with that connector, a few Inspirons used them too.

[Mando]

1 hour ago, Tidosho said:

It looks like it's from an old Dell Latitude with that connector, a few Inspirons used them too.

yer the 1525s wasnt it the silver n white edged ones. XP era.

 

use it as a paperweight

[jnelsoninjax]

1 hour ago, Raze said:

See if it contains any CIA/NSA secrets.   Ya never know....

Yeah it has the nuclear launch codes! Also some dino porn...,

[Raa]

I've still got a few of those connectors in my drawer too...

Nice find! But I doubt it'll work if you "just found it lying around"

[+Raze Subscriber²]

2 hours ago, jnelsoninjax said:

Yeah it has the nuclear launch codes! Also some dino porn...,

 

Could be someone's bitcoin storage.....  

[T3X4S]

dino pr0n - 

RAWR

[LaP]

On 2017-03-09 at 11:47 PM, slamfire92 said:

You found it on the ground? Where do you live, Cybertron?

 

Wish I'd find a Ryzen or an i7 while walking around....

I found a Titan X the other day gently lying in a public garden

[Danielx64]

1 hour ago, LaP said:

I found a Titan X the other day gently lying in a public garden

Photo or it didn't happen

[T3X4S]

2 hours ago, LaP said:

I found a Titan X the other day gently lying in a public garden

Sounds like something a certain other member claims all the time

 

[Mando]

6 hours ago, LaP said:

I found a Titan X the other day gently lying in a public garden

lol LaP  was the garden called "PC World"  

 

funnily enough I witnessed something similar, i saw a R480 standing at a street corner jiggling its ram chips at me, called me big boy....I giggled, blushed and ran away, and told my lover NV970 that a R480 wanted my chips!

970 was cool about it, didnt even ramp up the fans.....shes such a classy lady, unlike that tart, the 480 

 

dont get me wrong, I dont mind tarty ones, but they are a bit like a Honda C90 cub step thru (google it if your post 80s born), great fun to ride, but you dont want your mates to catch you riding it.  

 

(hmm maybe i shouldnt have got up so early)

Edited March 11, 2017 by Mando

[Mando]

3 hours ago, T3X4S said:

Sounds like something a certain other member claims all the time

 

hey, The R480 did flirt at me dammit!  you dont know, you wernt there!  you were too busy looking at that 3dfx Voodoo 1 in a naughty manner when in the retirement home you deviant.......;) 

6 hours ago, T3X4S said:

dino pr0n - 

RAWR

the drives old enough, and if it doesnt have dino porn, there may be scans of Moses stone tablets on it  its THAT old !

[Sszecret Veteran]

6 hours ago, LaP said:

I found a Titan X the other day gently lying in a public garden

Where is this public garden located? For you know, research purposes.

[Tidosho]

2 hours ago, Sszecret said:

Where is this public garden located? For you know, research purposes.

In illegaloperation's (or whatever he's changed his name to now) back garden! He's got chicks, surfaces and allsorts of stuff he's "found!" Ya know, for research!