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Dissolved
10-02-01, 01:45 AM
anyone ever try or hear of someone taking the top of there hdd off, and putting plastic/plexie glass so they could see inside? im not sure if possible, but ive seen it done to cd-rw drives and cd-roms..
I seriouslly dont think that is much of an option... from what I have seen the inside of hdd's are static dust free... the way they are made is in a special environment... so I would not suggest taking it apart to try this... Now if you know someone with the right stuff and the ability to actually build a hdd.... then maybe something to play with... But I wouldnt suggest it otherwise...
typhoonmike
10-02-01, 11:48 AM
Awesome idea but I'm pretty sure you remove the top and you trash the drive. Perhaps if it was done in a computer clean room then it might be okay but I doubt any of us have access to one or have one in our house. Guess you could always take an old one and do the mod and just have it installed. Not sure how you'd get it to spin up without having it hooked up to an IDE but maybe just having power to it would be enough. I've got a 2 gig and a 3 gig sitting at home. Both are still good but I've always wanted to see the inside of one anyway.
Crash893
10-02-01, 11:54 AM
a particle of smoke is big enogh to @#@# up a hdd
i would also sugest agenst it.
but if you have an old school 100meg hard drive you dont care about you should try it out just to see if it can be done.
Kingslayer
10-02-01, 12:39 PM
Yes this has been done and it has been done successfully. Hard drives aren't as fragile as you think. The guy did this about 6 months ago on his workbench....and the drive is still running fine.
train22
10-02-01, 04:07 PM
yeah, in fact, I took mine apart, not this one but one I had with me for a ling time, a 4GB drive from an old machine.I was just about to take out the neato magnet when I realized I could still use the HD, so I quickly put it back together. I really wanted to touch the beautiful shinny discs but didn't end up doing so...
typhoonmike
10-02-01, 04:37 PM
Laugh. One of the most fascinating things about hard drives are the big shiny disks. I want to check them out also. Hmmm...perhaps I'll just take this 2 gig apart. I'd be to afraid to do it on a nice 30gig or something.
foxmulder
10-03-01, 08:37 AM
Originally posted by Kingslayer
Yes this has been done and it has been done successfully. Hard drives aren't as fragile as you think. The guy did this about 6 months ago on his workbench....and the drive is still running fine.
I saw that. It looked absolutely awsome. It would be great to do that and then add som LEDs to light it up.
cowanrg
10-03-01, 10:49 AM
i would really like to see some pics of this! i should get one of my old 500mb drives, cut it up, and mod it, but not even plug it into ide channel. just have the power on it.
KeyboardCowboy
10-03-01, 03:42 PM
dude this is a sweet ass idea, i am going to try this tonight with an old 800mb hard drive and see what happens
UnseenMenace
10-03-01, 05:12 PM
This is what it looks like when done
UnseenMenace
10-03-01, 05:13 PM
and again
-=HN=- Wild9
10-03-01, 05:54 PM
thats a sweet @ss mod, and actually i have been so lucky to touch one of those shiny discs,
one of my friends back in ohio who ran a computer shop got an old hd i think it was a 1 gig, but it had 2 big discs, like really big at least 3 inches tall when it was sitting there, he took the hd apart and just used the discs as a paperwieght, wierd huh
typhoonmike
10-03-01, 06:59 PM
Just down right spiffy.
bodezafa
10-03-01, 10:07 PM
Originally posted by -=HN=- Wild9
thats a sweet @ss mod, and actually i have been so lucky to touch one of those shiny discs,
one of my friends back in ohio who ran a computer shop got an old hd i think it was a 1 gig, but it had 2 big discs, like really big at least 3 inches tall when it was sitting there, he took the hd apart and just used the discs as a paperwieght, wierd huh
I was at this customers house and he had an old disk hanging on the wall in his basement that was a little bigger than a LP!!:eek:
That is freakin schweet!!!
I saw one that was about twice the size of an LP and it was also only about 5 megs I think the guy said... It was in a local shop here in town...
r0ckstarbob
10-05-01, 02:48 AM
yup. definately like it. very slick.
The Overclocker
10-05-01, 10:21 AM
i dont have any spare hds
foxmulder
10-05-01, 02:19 PM
The coolest mod would be a entire plexi glass case for the HDD complete with neon lights. Has anyone ever done something like that?
SteenkyBastage
10-05-01, 02:54 PM
i especially like the "warranty? what warranty?" on the side of the modded HD.
KeyboardCowboy
10-05-01, 06:20 PM
Originally posted by Rabid Bob Dole
i especially like the "warranty? what warranty?" on the side of the modded HD.
yeah that is cool
i finished doing mine, i will have pics soon, i just replaced the top "lid" of the hard drive with a piece of lexan, still looks sweet
*JEREMY*
10-05-01, 11:38 PM
I just took apart an old 450mb hd after reading this and fumbling thru my tools for 20 minutes looking for those stupid star bits to take the thing apart.I never knew those discs were that thick and made of metal,i took them out and they are suprisingly light. Does anyone know what kind of metal they are made of? I noticed too that inside of the drive there is a little slot with a packet of that silica stuff to absorb moisture.You learn all kinds of stuff by breaking it apart :)
That is so awesome,
So doing this doesn't effect the performace at all right?
just wondering......"well thinkin where I can get some plexiglass:)
nice pix dude! think i might give it a go! just try it on an old 50-100mb hdd ive got sittin round collecting dust/makin my room look messy!
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