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Ok so I have this 5.25' dvd player or whatever its called that is in an unknown condition it looks very clean and when I try to shake it it doesn't make any noise, seems to me like a small nice addon to my PC since I have a spare sata power cable and a serial ATA that are brand new and if I remember correctly this dvd drive is about 7 years old now and last time I used it was about 3 years ago it was working fine.
So I was just wondering, what's the worse that can happen if I connected it to my PC? could it possibly fry a component? or will it just simply not work in the wors case senario?
Thanks in advance!