HDD MODDING

[hylianprincess7]

Give it a few months now, then kiss it goodbye. I mean unless you did this in a place where there was absolutely NO dust, and clear capped it prior to modding it.

[mattosoffice]

I want to build one. Obviously just for aesthetic reasons to hang in my room

[97221135]

Aww MAN ! . I WANT ONE OF THOES TRANSPARRENT CASE FOR HDD >.<

[h2oextremepcs]

hardest mod to do & have a working drive as you cant get one spec of dust in it & the screws need to have correct pressure

[bg048]

Did you know even if a singe dust particle gets in that hard drive, its ruined.

[bg048]

@bg048 It, will still work, but it will die faster that it would unopen.

[keithskater]

cool but does it blend??

[nullwii]

lol, i did this in high school, mine was a 8gb and i hosted a website on it until the drive suicided

[skripko7]

Красиво! Но от HDD нет никакого толка, если он не работает. Все-таки не для красоты он был рожден.

[UltraNSC]

HDD is brocken...thats for sure ^^

[paintballgundown8]

i put a plexiglass cover with water and soap suds in my hard drive...it doesnt work but makes it look like a wahsing machine when my computer is on

[PsalmsOfPlanets072]

my watercooled hdd is better

[TheNewKidsFilms]

They should make HDD's like this stock.

[bradrsavidge]

lame sauce...

[ciccarello]

... leds... come on man thats too old school

:/ 4/5

[Theonegamefreak]

Whatchu new coo kids up to now?

[ciccarello]

eh most ppl now adays are rewiring their stuff to make it better, not adding a few wires for color

not saying this isnt cool but, there is still some better stuff

[Theonegamefreak]

It's a mod.. mods are meant to be pretty..

I mean is there anything better than led?

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

you should put this cover on a working drive, it looks great

[shutovilya]

shitty lame donkey's crap

[Kilen81]

Hehe cool, would have been even greater with it really working, and a small Led on the head moving up and down, but i guess thats a bit hard to do...

[BadAndUgly]

A friend of mine did the LED-on-arm thing on one drive, looked cool as hell but the drive died 6 months later.. He used a surface mount RGB diode that had a circuit changing the color each time the drive was reading/writing.

[Kilen81]

6 months? Thats not bad at all man considering they are so sensitive in being opened. I dug through all my things and found 2 old 8Gb hdds i was supposed to mod... Opened up the Fujitsu one and closed it again... It held up for 6 hours and then it started to sing the clicking sound of Death on me ^^ Wonder if theres any place i can Rent a sterile Laboratory..

[FUzzyBUnnyBOoties]

Very cool mod. Something that I might have to try.

[mishuptm]

I wanna replace the top with a plexi glass, but i want to still use the hdd. I just need to find a real clean enviroment.

[examinationboard]

it does have to be cleaner than a surgical theater

[masterwolf1212]

I beleive I have seen some when compusa was still open that were clear and had leds. U could probably find some.

[UntakenNick]

I did the same thing.. It keeps files correctly for some minutes and then it starts to hang until you reboot the pc and format the disk..

[Eep386]

That almost definitely looks like a Conner. Those were excellent, extremely reliable drives in the day. I still have 425mb and 270mb Conners, as well as a 40mb SCSI Conner still kicking around!

[DtCKclan]

lol 400mb

[HRVATINA007]

i dont know... :( i think it was WD...

[HRVATINA007]

conner? i dont know what is conner :( this HDD had 126Mb :)

[Slurfs]

Conner was a known hard drive manufacturer just like Western Digital, Hitachi, Samsung etc...

[acecono]

is that a conner hard drive???

[tkman81]

Ruined

[ZuFail]

What are the read/write times or is it just a paper weight now?

[mygaffer]

Did you do this in a clean room or did you ruin a hdd to make it look pretty. If the latter, why?

[Alrold]

@mygaffer clean room ? you need a fuking vacoum room and a special suit and if you lucky you wont ruin your hd .

[mygaffer]

@Alrold Hahaha, I take it you have never heard of a "cleanroom" before. They aren't called "vacaum"(sic) rooms, they are called cleanrooms, and they have different levels which specify how many ppm of contaminants there are in the air. I do IT work for a living and part of that is data recovery. We send the repair jobs out to Drive Savers or ESS since we don't have a cleanroom.

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

let it run!

[Mushroom1871986]

i saw this on the screen savers long time ago

[wrestlesomnia]

if your going to do a mod like this one DO NOT and repeat DO NOT do it on a new harddrive you'll risk losing all th Data on it

try it with a very old one

[DJDigitalMonster]

Without a CleanRoom [A room with... well.... nothing but you, your work, and air. no dust or anything] you wont just loose data, More then likly the drive itself.

[firelightheat]

cool! even if it dont work! did u use some kind of kit! plaese tell me how!

firelightheat at yahoo DOT com

[jinx265465654]

does it work?

[lhuser]

Next time, try to do it an an actual working drive. Now I'll be impressed.