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The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It was standardized as ATA, some people calling it PATA or IDE to distinguish it from the newer SATA standard

https://web.archive.org/web/20120716041146/http://www.harddrivereport.com/pata_vs_ata_vs_sata_vs_ide.html

But I remembered wrong, it was a similar IDC connector for the floppies with a different amount of pins