What is this connector?

I still remember the "master" and "slave" settings on HDD's.

The "master" drive is the primary device, and the "slave" is the secondary. The configuration was set via jumpers on the hard drive or by using a "cable select" cable.

Having two HDD's installed in my PC felt like a achievement at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yakPdbD86g

Mhmm

Yep.

i don't remember how much i paid for my first 8+ gb hdd in the 1990s, but it was probably $200 or more.. for what now fits on a $5 flash drive.

An 80 wire one, too, so it probably supports some manner of "Ultra" ATA. 66 or maybe even upwards of 100 MB/sec!

My god I've never felt so old until this post

Was going to post this exact gif

I swear I saw this movie from the gif on TV once but I can't remember the name and only remember a small section of it

PATA = Pre SATA

Time for a colon cancer screening.

Today I ordered some chicken nuggets from mcdonalds and asked for hot mustard sauce. the kid at register had no clue what that was and gave me some sort of chipotle sauce. we are, indeed, getting old.

You could use it for one, if you had an adapter. I wouldn't though. It'll almost certainly limit performance.

There where and apparently still are SSDs that use PATA connections. One of my first SSDs did because I put it in fairly old hardware at that time.

I can't imagine the drive has more than double digit GB though.

yeah mb, its an hdd

Damn... 32 isn't that old, is it ?

The cable with the twist is a floppy drive cable, not IDE.

Kids these days, they don't even know how to change the ribbon in a typewriter.

What, so you're telling me that's "silly" because it's no longer relevant? Well, about that...

thank :)

It's not always what Gen are you, it's more like your knowledge and profession.

Sounds like something a boomer would say.

No Masters, no Slaves - only Cable Select!

So like... What does the jumper do?

Laptops for a while had these on the 2.5 inchers, and then I remember a very small window of time having IDE 2.5 inch ssds, but it was a very narrow window

My first SSD had PATA(IDE) connnection. It was tiny, but stilll faster than my 7200 rpm HDD for gaming at the time.

There are SSD drives still being sold with IDE(PATA) connections! Expensive for what they are. Probably replacements for older vending machines or other electronic things that last decades.

https://www.amazon.com/pata-ssd/s?k=pata+ssd

Actually there are, I thought the same thing, but you can now get an SSD with an IDE interface. I think it's a recent thing, but I seem to at least remember something like a compact flash to ide once upon a time

Yes there was a window of time where it was common that a CD-ROM drive was sold with a sound card and they would connect using the same type of ribbon cable. I worked for an OEM PC assembly company and installed many of those.

thanks, ill try

Incorrect.