The Lemmy community will help you with your tech problems and questions about anything here. Do not be shy, we will try to help you.
If something works or if you find a solution to your problem let us know it will be greatly apreciated.
Rules: instance rules + stay on topic
Partnered communities:
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!
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 🙂
Thank you for the tip. I’ll definitely look into that, do you recommend any in particular?
I love these, far more useful than an optical drive. The only difference between them will be the bezel, which varies to fit different laptops' shapes. They are completely passive; no components except maybe a capacitor to prevent a power surge when hot-swapping.
No, I've always just used whichever cheap one matches my needs :)