SATA Lappy drive

Drazic · 12 Jul 2007 at 20:22

Out of intrest what are the conections like on these?

Are they like a STD pc on power etc, can they be use on a desktop at all?

Hot idea for a mod you see

mattyrigby00 · 12 Jul 2007 at 21:14

theres adapters for connecting laptop drives to desktop computers i believe

mi9tchy · 12 Jul 2007 at 23:36

laptop sata drives use the same connection for both power and data as desktops do

Phemo · 12 Jul 2007 at 23:59

Yup exactly the same connections. I have a laptop SATA drive in one of my PCs right now.

Drazic · 13 Jul 2007 at 21:53

IDE/ATA/PATA/UDME

They are 44pin i think which need an adapter to run on a desktop

Sweet cheers for the info on the SATA ones. Just as well i huge box at work of them to toy with

So in a laptop the SATA ones they will have a sata cable and a power input or can they run off the SATA at all?

fobose · 13 Jul 2007 at 22:35

SATA is data only.

Drazic · 16 Jul 2007 at 15:09

I will have to get some photos as i am really confused on the setup of what i got on this laptop as the mobo shows what looks sata yet it's an ide HD

Slackworth · 16 Jul 2007 at 17:00

SATA Notebook:

Drazic · 16 Jul 2007 at 18:58

Yeah we gathered that the SATA 2.5 drive use the same conections as on a desktop SATA!

How ever my laptop i am on now has what looks like a SATA conection to the mobo but it then conetcts to an IDE dirve!

I will open it up and get photos

Clarkey · 17 Jul 2007 at 14:29

IDE optical drive in my laptop has a connector which looks similar to the SATA one, but it deffo is not, never had one with an IDE HDD so couldn't comment on those.