I need to find an adapter for this stupid HD-DVD drive from 2008. Sorry, this is before my time.

  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 hours ago

    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.

    • daggermoon@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      2 hours ago

      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.

      • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        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.

          • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            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.

        • daggermoon@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          2 hours ago

          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.

  • martini1992@lemmy.ml
    12·
    3 hours ago

    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.

    • daggermoon@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      3 hours ago

      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.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      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 ?