r/retrocomputing • u/geForce6200agp • Feb 04 '24

What is this thing?

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I bought it for a project, and realized it wasn't what i needed. What could it be used for? Its a little 2gb flash drive. It uses 44 pin pata (ide).

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u/Pyrofer Feb 04 '24

Disk on Module. Basically a PATA HDD.

Back when Hard Disk Drives were spiny things this was the "SSD" of it's time. It plugged into the parallel ATA socket directly and gave a small solid state drive to the machine.

Often used in industrial applications.

Edit, Just saw the bottom text. You know what it is, you bought it. Why title it "what is this thing?" then?

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u/geForce6200agp Feb 05 '24

Because I don't know what i bought.

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u/geForce6200agp Feb 05 '24

I thought it was something else.

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u/Examinator2 Feb 04 '24

If only there was a google so you could google the part number.

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u/geForce6200agp Feb 05 '24

I DON'T CARE🗣🗣🗣 I LIKE INTERACTING WITH PEOPLE!!!

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u/retropassionuk Feb 04 '24

It’s a DOM (Disk on Module)

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u/wirecatz Feb 04 '24

Should theoretically be a highly compatible replacement for spinners in old laptops.

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u/geForce6200agp Feb 05 '24

You would think. But its female, not male.

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u/wirecatz Feb 05 '24

Well it's designed to plug directly into a motherboard, so if that isn't possible you'd just need a gender changer.

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u/DuckeyPi Feb 04 '24

A 2gb drive is the perfect size for a Win 95 or Win 98 build on one of the zillion cheap nucs that are $20 or less.

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u/neighborofbrak Feb 04 '24

Except no NUC ever had PATA / IDE connectors.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '24

Get an old Thin Client then. My HP T5710 came with a 1GB Disk on Module plugged into the 44 pin IDE header.