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I had a hard drive fail on a Dell Dimension, less than 1 year old. I open it
up to remove the failed 160GB hard drive - and lo and behold both the power
and data connectors are ones I've never seen before. Usually they have a
Molex power connector and a 40-pin ribbon cable connector. But these new
data connectors use far fewer pins.
What are these connectors, and are these typical on large HD's or a Dell
proprietary connector? Are there any adapters available should I wish to
install a "standard connector" HD or mount the Dell HD in a different machie
to retrieve data?
I had a hard drive fail on a Dell Dimension, less than 1 year old. I open it
up to remove the failed 160GB hard drive - and lo and behold both the power
and data connectors are ones I've never seen before. Usually they have a
Molex power connector and a 40-pin ribbon cable connector. But these new
data connectors use far fewer pins.
What are these connectors, and are these typical on large HD's or a Dell
proprietary connector? Are there any adapters available should I wish to
install a "standard connector" HD or mount the Dell HD in a different machie
to retrieve data?