What kind of Hard drive is this?

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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?

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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 :p

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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 ;)

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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" :p 

 

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 :rofl:

 

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. :woot: 

 

(hmm maybe i shouldnt have got up so early)

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3 hours ago, T3X4S said:

Sounds like something a certain other member claims all the time :whistle:

 

hey, The R480 did flirt at me dammit! :p you dont know, you wernt there! :rofl: 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 :p its THAT old ! :p

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2 hours ago, Sszecret said:

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

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!

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