What connector is this?

[German_John]

Hello everyone,

I've been taking apart an old, non-functioning laptop to salvage usable parts. Finally, I've removed the optical drive. Now, my current laptop has no drive, so I thought about getting a case and making this baby an external drive. I don't know much about connectors, so... what is this? PATA? Doesn't look like IDE...

 

Cheers,

John

 

PS: inb4 google, can't seem to find anything...

 

EDIT:

Removed accidental second attached pic

[KettyKoala]

I think it's called ATAPI

[swordsman247]

4 minutes ago, German_John said:

Hello everyone,

I've been taking apart an old, non-functioning laptop to salvage usable parts. Finally, I've removed the optical drive. Now, my current laptop has no drive, so I thought about getting a case and making this baby an external drive. I don't know much about connectors, so... what is this? PATA? Doesn't look like IDE...

 

Cheers,

John

Okay so that's actually a pata conection

[German_John]

2 minutes ago, KettyKoala said:

I think it's called ATAPI

Isn't ATAPI SATA-compatible? If so, I doubt it, because that laptop is from 2004 and had an IDE hard drive in it.

 

2 minutes ago, swordsman247 said:

Okay so that's actually a pata conection

Hm, seems that laptop PATA looks different from desktop PATA, which is odd... well, if it works that'll be a ten buck external drive. ^^

[swordsman247]

41 minutes ago, German_John said:

Isn't ATAPI SATA-compatible? If so, I doubt it, because that laptop is from 2004 and had an IDE hard drive in it.

 

Hm, seems that laptop PATA looks different from desktop PATA, which is odd... well, if it works that'll be a ten buck external drive. ^^

Here's a reference pic:

 

 

you can get a usb adapter and case for them cheapish.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Laptop-External-USB-2-0-CD-DVD-RW-ROM-Portable-Drive-Enclosure-IDE-PATA-Case-/290964001896?hash=item43bece5468:g:HJQAAOSwoBtW2SX1

[German_John]

27 minutes ago, swordsman247 said:

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Thanks! Weirdly, I found lots of these

Which really looks more like IDE. Oh well... 

I already found a case that adapts to USB for less than €10 on Amazon. ^^ Speeds will definitely be USB 2.0, but it'll get the job done for booting Bioshock. And connected to a 3.0 port it might even get enough power from one cable...

[swordsman247]

8 minutes ago, German_John said:

Thanks! Weirdly, I found lots of these

Which really looks more like IDE. Oh well... 

I already found a case that adapts to USB for less than €10 on Amazon. ^^ Speeds will definitely be USB 2.0, but it'll get the job done for booting Bioshock. And connected to a 3.0 port it might even get enough power from one cable...

 

Yeah ata/pata/ide are the same thing...sorta.

 

 

I have been able to run a drive like this on just a usb 2 connection no prob. might be different if you're needing to burn a disk though.