50 pin jae connector, if it's from 2008 that's like the last batch before everything thankfully went sata. Its probably an IDE drive. Hopefully the discs won't have disk rot.
Many of my HD-DVD's did have disc rot unfortunately. I have a sata HD-DVD/Blu-ray drive I was using to back them up a few years ago. The problem is, the drive no longer works with MakeMKV. The drive works great otherwise. I bought these discs and an HD-DVD player because I thought it was neat and I like collecting physical media. I have regretted buying an HD-DVD player ever since I tried watching a movie and it didn't work.
Unrelated but... having lived through the 00's I always found writable CDs and DVDs to be such a shit unreliable tech. It always seemed like discs might work ok with some drives but not others, or just stop working after a few weeks, and they really didn't seem tolerant to even minor scratches. Just awful.
I have hundreds of burned discs that work fine. If you bought cheap discs you got what you paid for.
I have hundreds of burned discs that work fine.
I've heard this a million times.
I certainly never bought the cheapest discs. It's been a decade but I think it was verbatim usually.
Verbatim in my experience have consistently been the best of everything they’ve made. Also usually the most expensive so they’re not really what most people will buy, unfortunately. Memorex has been a pretty good mid-range, I’d even put it just below Verbatim. But when people buy these shit TDK stuff… you’re not gonna be happy.
Anyway these days you can stick what… 2TB yet? on a microSD. I know that discs offer the not subject to magnetic damage but still… they fail after age far earlier than promised when they were sold.
Fault tolerance is the best for anyone who can afford it. Only way to make sure stuff lasts.
Verbatim varied quite a bit along its range of products and over time. Some of it was the best on the market while other stuff was absolute garbage.
I really only burned Audio CD's and DVD-Video movies. I haven't had any issues. All the ones I've burned still work. Data DVD's, less reliable. I have lost data on those. I burn Blu-ray movies now. I don't think they'll last long.
I found that the shiny black chrome looking disks seemed to be better than the purple tint kind. Chemically different media. Its anecdotal, not a scientific tested theory
Ide can confirm.
Maybe one of these?
On AliExpress: 12.7mm USB 2.0 DVD/CD-ROM Case , IDE/ PATA to SATA Optical Drive External Enclosure For Laptop https://a.aliexpress.com/_Evga3Y0
Looks like a high density IDE connector.
I'd shop around for similar products, not sure if you need USB, SATA or just big IDE.
Yeah, that's the one. I have that same enclosure. I didn't know what it was called and I wasn't getting many results for "mini IDE". I've looked around and can't find any other adapters. The one in that enclosure constantly disconnects. I want a sata adapter, but I don't think it exists.
There are definitely IDE to USB adapters. Not sure about IDE to SATA.
That's probably a proprietary connector combining Sata and power, typical for removable drives in laptops
That would've been my guess. Other commenters seem less pessimistic though?
Even if you can find some kind of cable to plug this somewhere... drivers ?
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