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  • pentium
    Badcaps Legend
    • Mar 2006
    • 2778
    • Canada
    #1

    Pimp my drive

    I have always wanted to have a hard drive that not only worked bu also had a window in it.
    Well, two dremel grinding discs, a cd case, some hot glue and a hard drive later I had an old 3Gb WD Caviar drive that was exactly that: A hard drive with a window.




    It's not really pretty (it was a test job) but after all was said and done I popped the drive in a computer and threw every test I could at it to see if I had gotten dust on the platters. So far it has passed everything I have thrown at it. No errors. Nothing!

    Hmm, If this keeps up, I should buy a few SATA drives off ebay and to the same but also buy one of those plexiglass cases so that not only can you see the inside of your computer but also the inside of the hard drives! While I am at it, I should also do the same to the optical drives as well!
    Find Nedry!


    Check the Vending machines!!

    <----Computer says I need more beer.
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    • pentium
      Badcaps Legend
      • Mar 2006
      • 2778
      • Canada
      #2
      Re: Pimp my drive

      Just realized something.
      The bastards left two whole platters unused and sold it as a 3Gb drive.
      Find Nedry!


      Check the Vending machines!!

      <----Computer says I need more beer.

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        • PCBONEZ
          Grumpy Old Fart
          • Aug 2005
          • 10661
          • USA
          #3
          Re: Pimp my drive

          Originally posted by pentium
          Just realized something.
          The bastards left two whole platters unused and sold it as a 3Gb drive.
          They do that all the time.
          The extra platters failed testing so they disabled them in the firmware and sold it as a smaller capacity drive.

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            • momaka
              master hoarder
              • May 2008
              • 12170
              • Bulgaria
              #4
              Re: Pimp my drive

              It looks great, especially for a quick job like this
              Now add in a few LEDs and it would be complete .

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                • Roadkill203
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2008
                  • 68
                  #5
                  Re: Pimp my drive

                  Originally posted by momaka
                  It looks great, especially for a quick job like this
                  Now add in a few LEDs and it would be complete .
                  Maybe some ground-effects, too...

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                    • pentium
                      Badcaps Legend
                      • Mar 2006
                      • 2778
                      • Canada
                      #6
                      Re: Pimp my drive

                      Originally posted by momaka
                      It looks great, especially for a quick job like this
                      Now add in a few LEDs and it would be complete .
                      I was thinking of doing that (just barely have the room) but decided against it as I have this thing with adding leds to computers.
                      Find Nedry!


                      Check the Vending machines!!

                      <----Computer says I need more beer.

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