Hard Drive Window...

look up www.syphiliz.net . it's a friend's page and he did a very brutal hdd window mod

Think I will wait for a manufacturer to produce one with a window that is an install for a clean room, not my bench or garage! Until then I am happy with my retro polished / semi chrome drive :P

That's a pretty cool thing to have sitting on the shelf but for the most part i will be keeping my drives in tact for now. I could go for a clean room. It sure would be cool to have the cash to build one.

Here is a pic of one i did ~ 3 months ago. it is a maxtor 8gigger, nothing special (i didn't care if I ruined it, i just wanted it to look cool) I had some extra plexi, etc. the cool part is, I expected it to not work ever again, and it works FINE!!!

All i did to ensure no dust was get a plastic grocery bag i dunked it in water a few times and hung it upside down to try to cleanse it some, then I opened the HDD upside down, put it immediately inside the bag (to try and prevent dust) I messed with the cover then (used hot glue to ensure airtight-ness on the window) , and then put it back on upside down.

The really crazy thing is it survived the whole ordeal I was even able to get the files off in windows from it, I did a surface scan and lo-and-behold, it survived even THAT!!! amazing, at the least.

Very cool at the best


Oh sorry for the crappy quality of pictures, my camera is a peice.



http://hardware.ui3.org/temp/drive2.jpg
http://hardware.ui3.org/temp/drive3.jpg

[edit] Oh i neglected to mention- the power leads go to a 5mm BL00 LED i installed to a 4pin molex [/edit]

Very nice. I wouldn't store any important data on it though

me neither. i'm not counting on it to KEEP working really, i won't bet on it, thats for sure :-D but it was just amazing to me that joe schmoe (me) with a plastic bag and a little bit of time was able to crack a hdd open and put it back together and it still worked ! I always thought those things were incredibly sensetive but they supposedly are okay with forces like 80g's? amazing stuff, technology is.

The only thing that scres me is that the reliability of the drive is toast. A piece of dust could just stay in there for a year without causing problems and then poof, your screwed

agreed.

but it still LOOKS sweet

Very agreed. I would like to have one even if it was not functional. Hard drive manufactureres will start making them that way as more people talk about it. Happens all of the time. You will notice that as modders do things more and more they start showing up on major products. Blue LEDs for example.

Thinking about pulling apart an old caviar gb drive hat has been sitting for a few years and try it and see if it still works after, I could care less if it breaks, so we will just have to see