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l008com · Dec 6, 2002, 09:51 PM

Does anyone have a link to the page on how to replace the top of yoru hard drive with a piece of plexiglass? I think thats a good thing to do and I wanna give it a try, i'd mount the drive externally on my desk, it would be quite a site to see, i think anyway. I just might give it a shot.

schalliol · Dec 7, 2002, 10:21 AM

No idea, but let us know what you do. Sounds interesting. You certainly would not have to worry about cooling air at least. I don't know, but the cover may be functional and be performing a function you would need to replicate.

I suppose there could be many ways to mount it/them artistically.

euphras · Dec 7, 2002, 11:46 AM

If you wanna spoil a HDD (unless you work in a chip plant under totally dust free conditions), do it! Dust particles will make this HDD useless...

COmie JOe · Dec 7, 2002, 03:43 PM

Yea think it could be done, but dust could create a big issue. that and sealing it back up

l008com · Dec 7, 2002, 07:22 PM

I think some of you misunderstood, this is not my idea, it CAN and HAS been done, i've seen pictures of them and someone created directions somewhere on the web. They recommend turning on the shower and getting your bathroom all steamed up to clear it of dust, then work quickly. I wanna give it a shot but I can't seem to find the directions anywhere. BTW obviously I would never peal the top off of a hard drive that was too important for me to loose.

schalliol · Dec 8, 2002, 02:21 AM

So...if you can do it then, cool.

You must have an artistic layout for such a task, what is it? So, you're going to put an internal hard drive outside the computer. How are you going to connect it? With an External cable and an internal adpater?

S|ntax · Dec 8, 2002, 03:51 AM

http://www.overclockers.com/tips821/

good luck.

l008com · Dec 8, 2002, 12:25 PM

Originally posted by schalliol:
So...if you can do it then, cool.

You must have an artistic layout for such a task, what is it? So, you're going to put an internal hard drive outside the computer. How are you going to connect it? With an External cable and an internal adpater?

Yeah I had a couple of ideas. One was to use about a 9 GB SCSI drive. I was planning on upgrading to a 3 drive SCSI RAID in my PowerMac anyway, and in addition to that, i could just hook this 9 GB up to the external port. Then mount it on the upper piece of my desk, for all to see. And if it was really reliable, I would consider making it a swap drive, so it would be in near constant motion. Other ideas were, to make a computer attached to this table i have. No case, just the motherboard screwed to the bottom, and all the components attached to various places. I've wanted a computer that I can play around with linux on, so maybe i'd use an IDE drive and get on old iMac 233 motherboard. I also though of doing two identical drives, mounting them both visible on this table computer, and using them as a raid, so you could watch synchronized moving! I bet that, before long, hard drive makers will start making drives like this! It really is cool.

blackgasmask · Dec 8, 2002, 05:42 PM

Originally posted by l008com:
I think some of you misunderstood, this is not my idea, it CAN and HAS been done, i've seen pictures of them and someone created directions somewhere on the web. They recommend turning on the shower and getting your bathroom all steamed up to clear it of dust, then work quickly. I wanna give it a shot but I can't seem to find the directions anywhere. BTW obviously I would never peal the top off of a hard drive that was too important for me to loose.

check techtv.com. that or thescreensavers.com. their hardware guy moshi or yoshi or some dood has done a hd mod exactly of the type you described. it was on tss like 2 months ago, looked pretty cool.