ESET recommends installing Linux if your unsupported Windows 11 PC can't update from 10
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    • dmtalon@infosec.pubEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Like a tiny proprietary connector, not Molex, not SATA. So the power supply had a single line running to the spinner HDD (standard SATA), and then piggy backed off that to the optical drive was this little connector. Kind of looked like a 4pin fan connector size. I didn’t bother investigating after my plan to just disconnect the optical drive was thwarted <sigh>

      • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        Ah that rings a bell, some of my (older) PSU cables have one of those at the end after a daisy chain of SATA or Molex

        Something like the rightmost in these pictures?

        I think they are called Floppy connectors

        • dmtalon@infosec.pubEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          That might be it, but would an optical drive run off that? Guess it’s all the same power wires.

          • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I never had an optical drive that had this connector, but it seems plausible that the relatively smaller pins could still carry enough power for it.

            The most power hungy bit would probably be the spinning motor, and the mass being spun is much lower in an optical drive than for a magnetic drive platter.