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LIF is an IDE drive usually intended for small netbooks and notebooks. It uses a small flat ribbon with exposed ends. If you open your netbook, you will see what I mean. It's that little 1" ribbon that goes between your motherboard and the Solid State drive. iPods with hard drives use the same connector. Physically they are ribbon cables, electronically they are just IDE drives. Also, they mostly run at 3.3v. So my IDE->LIF adapter has a step-down that takes the 5v input to the drive and down converts it to 3.3v. This is the reason why NetBooks get (among other advances) much better battery life if they use LIF. The iPod drives and other 1.8" (Definition of LIF drives) use the LIF/ZIF Connector. They also use a small plastic clamp-down device to hold the ribbon in, vs the pin setup on most IDE HDD. If you looked at my pics of the netbook, that white cable that goes from the board in my netbook to that Hitachi drive is LIF
LIF is an IDE drive usually intended for small netbooks and notebooks. It uses a small flat ribbon with exposed ends. If you open your netbook, you will see what I mean. It's that little 1" ribbon that goes between your motherboard and the Solid State drive. iPods with hard drives use the same connector. Physically they are ribbon cables, electronically they are just IDE drives. Also, they mostly run at 3.3v. So my IDE->LIF adapter has a step-down that takes the 5v input to the drive and down converts it to 3.3v. This is the reason why NetBooks get (among other advances) much better battery life if they use LIF. The iPod drives and other 1.8" (Definition of LIF drives) use the LIF/ZIF Connector. They also use a small plastic clamp-down device to hold the ribbon in, vs the pin setup on most IDE HDD. If you looked at my pics of the netbook, that white cable that goes from the board in my netbook to that Hitachi drive is LIF