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I took apart my external DVD-RAM drive, and found that it was a normal desktop drive inside a caddy, with an interconnect board screwed on. But I haven't been able to find out what the interface on it was (see photos). Does anyone know? Thanks, Depths <3 P.S. The drive in question is a PBDS DS-8W1P 09C. photo 1 photo 2

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  • Your photos are super blurry. Still, it seems like the typical SATA to me.
    – Tom Yan
    May 23, 2021 at 14:48
  • @Tom Yan it's an edge connector, 50 pin, 25 on each side, bigger than your standard sata connector, big ol' piece of plastic in the middle of the male connector. A few ppl say it may be eIDE, but I highly doubt that, cause ide is 44 pins.
    – Kami-kun
    May 23, 2021 at 15:08
  • Yeah, in-focus would be a whole lot better. Cropping tighter from further away would still give far more detail than what you have there.
    – Tetsujin
    May 23, 2021 at 15:29
  • One of these? scsi.solutions/index.php?page=scsi
    – Tom Yan
    May 23, 2021 at 15:42
  • 50 pins sounds like SCSI-2. May 23, 2021 at 15:44

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This is not a desktop drive. It’s a laptop drive.

The connector is a “Slim Optical IDE” connector. There doesn’t appear to be any authoritative information available. You can find plenty of adapters though, to both SATA and 40-pin IDE.

I found a Newegg offer for Dell replacement drives (the drive in the question appears to be a Dell OEM drive). If we take a look at some of their pictures, this is a 1:1 match:

connector comparison

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  • bruh, i have a desktop that .has that form factor of ODD
    – Kami-kun
    May 24, 2021 at 17:26
  • Your point being? This is a laptop drive, “slimline”. Desktop optical drives are 5.25″. Sure, some cases may have slots for slimline drives, but they’re rare. There’s mounting adapters, too, of course. It’s still a laptop drive.
    – Daniel B
    May 24, 2021 at 18:04
  • My Dell Optiplex 755 has that type of odd, but it's sata instead of ide
    – Kami-kun
    May 25, 2021 at 14:52

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