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submitted 1 month ago by MrLLM@ani.social to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

Found this old DVD driver in the garage that looks like it was from a laptop. I’d like to use it, but I don’t know what port is that.

I thought it was SATA, but it’s a little bit more taller and narrow, maybe an old revision? Or is it HP proprietary?

Any help is appreciated!

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[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Just to add, you can get hard drive adaptors that fit in the same slot too, so you can have extra storage. They come in a DVD drive shaped caddy with pass through connectors for a laptop SATA drive 🙂

[-] MrLLM@ani.social 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the tip. I’ll definitely look into that, do you recommend any in particular?

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