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
Good god, please tell me this is a troll post.
Today I ordered some chicken nuggets from mcdonalds and asked for hot mustard sauce. the kid at register had no clue what that was and gave me some sort of chipotle sauce. we are, indeed, getting old.
Time for a colon cancer screening.
IDE was a step up from SCSI bs
Incorrect.
For those who know: remember to book your prostate exam
Damn… 32 isn’t that old, is it ?
Basically dead.
I’m gen z and even I know this is IDE
It’s not always what Gen are you, it’s more like your knowledge and profession.
Sounds like something a boomer would say.
That is an IDE cable, the standard for consumer-grade drives before SATA came along.
Sometimes you can find such cables with three connectors, one at one end, two at the other. And sometimes, a few wires are flipped over between those two connectors.
One IDE cable could host two harddisks, and most IDE harddisks had jumpers to set them to be drive 0 or 1. With a straight cable, you had to jumper them properly, with the partially twisted cable, you set both identical, I.e. you left them both as device 0.
The cable with the twist is a floppy drive cable, not IDE.
You can twist the IDE cable to switch the M/S configuration, too. It is not limited to the Shugart bus. But I have to admit it was more common there.
This functionality was implemented with a single cable select wire which is connected or open. I don’t see how a twist would work electrically.
I have a USB cable with that and the laptop variant on the end. Works really well. Hard drives from 20-30 years ago show up on my MacBook as easy as flash drives. But very slow. As expected for those drives.
Oof, my back…
This is IDE or PATA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA
You can find IDE to SATA adapters online.
Edit: just realized how old I am now :(
An 80 wire one, too, so it probably supports some manner of “Ultra” ATA. 66 or maybe even upwards of 100 MB/sec!
i don’t remember how much i paid for my first 8+ gb hdd in the 1990s, but it was probably $200 or more… for what now fits on a $5 flash drive.
You found an SSD that uses that cable? IDE SSDs exist, but they’re mostly modern devices for old systems.
Laptops for a while had these on the 2.5 inchers, and then I remember a very small window of time having IDE 2.5 inch ssds, but it was a very narrow window
What laptops do you remember with a 2.5" IDE ssd? Microdrive hard drives were more popular in laptops than their CF counterparts just because SSDs were so slow and low capacity. SSDs didn’t take off until right before NVME era.
Disk on modules existed, but those were for industrial PCs and nothing a normal person would ever actually use.
There’s no way I could remember a model number or brand. I worked Geek Squad back then and replaced probably thousands of laptop hard drives. Number one point of failure
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 camping 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.
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.
IDE
IDE or Parallel ATA. Its ancient tech at this point. I doubt it goes to a SSD more likely a HDD.
yeah mb, its an hdd
You could use it for one, if you had an adapter. I wouldn’t though. It’ll almost certainly limit performance.
There where and apparently still are SSDs that use PATA connections. One of my first SSDs did because I put it in fairly old hardware at that time.
I can’t imagine the drive has more than double digit GB though.
It’s an 80gb hdd :/
IDE hard disk connection, pre-SATA.
you might be able to find an adapter somewhere.
PATA = Pre SATA
sigh…
Yep.
Mhmm
I still remember the “master” and “slave” settings on HDD’s.
The “master” drive is the primary device, and the “slave” is the secondary. The configuration was set via jumpers on the hard drive or by using a “cable select” cable.
Having two HDD’s installed in my PC felt like a achievement at the time.
Thats an IDE connector, i think. Old conection for drives. AFAIK there are no SSDs that use IDE so its probably using a SATA to IDE adapter so you could just take it out and conect directly to SATA.
My first SSD had PATA(IDE) connnection. It was tiny, but stilll faster than my 7200 rpm HDD for gaming at the time.
There are SSD drives still being sold with IDE(PATA) connections! Expensive for what they are. Probably replacements for older vending machines or other electronic things that last decades.
