@Matthew yeah, because there's the drive controller and whatnot

Is the data important?

Nah, just my dad's Windows and WoW install

Have you considered burning it out clean and laying a new connection line?

I have not, wouldn't know how to.

Clean out the wrecked part with a knife or maybe a pointy solder iron depending on how much of a savage you are

Lay a new line with some silver cord or demanteled cable

And fry your pc in progress

Just scrap that drive

Is it that risky? What about if I put it in a toaster?

that the power side. just hard wire it

What's all the hype with YeeLights?

home automation

with stuff like IFTTT and such

also their price:performance ration is decent

and as far as i know they dont need to call home like shitty stuff competitors have (aka LAN-control)

(somebody correct me on that one if im wrong)

eh

you need to jump through a few hoops to get lan control

You gotta be real stupid to fry your Pc with a data port tbh.

@timsandtoms search for sata backplane

for some reason they use that a lot

Even with LAN control they phone home

yeah that's why i said some hoops to jump through

by what i mean the thing works even if you have the app firewalled

but yeah i dont own those so i cant say for sure

Yes that works.

But for some reason, if you have it turn on with a schedule (made with the yeelight app), it may fail to turn on if firewalled

So yeah you lose some functionality

Though if you have LAN control, you can just do all that with a cron

Just saying to get ready for it

Thanks lads. I had a GE set of bulbs that would only work by phoning home. Servers went down many times and i wouldn't be able to turn the lights on. Many such cases.

That sounds fucking awful

My yeelights are coming on Friday, will report on if they suck

@timsandtoms https://www.aliexpress.com/item/7Pin-15P-SATA-hard-disk-interface-male-socket-connector-90-or-180-degrees-needle-DIP-or/32817853460.html

you might be able to find cheaper

unless you have a hot air station I doubt you will be able to remove the old one

Wow, I'm surprised you were able to find that

Chinkshit truly is magical

those aren't the same

his appears to have the 4 extra pins