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i fund this great idea a few weeks ago but came accross it today
it can be found at
http://www.overclockers.com/tips821
now after viewing this i would think u would be drooling :D
well is anyone game or stupid enough to try it?
i would like to watch it in action if u do complete it
GOOD LUCK and may the force be with u :twisted:
fuck that. i am dumb, but not that dumb.
My data is too precious, and plainly that mod will decrease the life of the drive.
they are put together in class A clean rooms. My room isnt a class A room hahahaha
shit that would look good
Hard disk are built in a clean room, and there is a really good reason for this. Also all hard disks are contained in a vacume, this provents any dust getting into the disk drive.
No fucken way am i going to open up my hard disk drive and try this mod out. It tottaly stupid and i bet that guys harddisk drives fail after a peroid of time too.
No hard drives are not in a vacuum.. if you look on your hdd it has breather holes.. with a filter on them and maybe a little bit of text something along the lines of 'Do Not Cover!' (Oh look DNC :)) Anyway I think this is due to the fact that the hard drives heat up and air expands, etc.. dunno.
Seen this mod a few times before.. I don't think you can really say whether it will have a negative affect on the hard drive but sure chances are that any such fiddling carries SOME risk. I know that last sentence is somewhat contradictory but sometimes I can't help myself. Whether or not such actions will have a detrimental affect on the drive depends on the environment that the procedure occurs in and the care and skill of the person doing it.
Certainly is very nice though.
All they need to do is put a light in it and they're set! :wink:
I'll ask Seagate to make the mod for me myself... and add some lights on as well :mrgreen:
heres a tip, if you want to keep dust out of something, low pressure is a bad idea, dust proof rooms are kept at positive pressure so that it stays outside.
If you get a leak with low pressure, its gonna suck all kinds of shit it
And if for some reason you did have a vacuum, then you dont have to worry about it expanding when it gets warm :P
if i was to take a wild guess, id say probly not a vacuum, but a nice inactive gas that doesnt react with anything, like argon or something.
Definitely not vacuum.
HDs have specially made breathing holes for when they change temp etc without sucking in dirt.
but does the atmosphere get at the plates?? because ive got some really ancient hdds i took apart and once exposed the ferrous shit on em all fell off
the air holes might just cool the motor, and the actual techy part stays isolated
I would be cool to try out, but only on a old hard drive that aint used much any more (say a 2 gigger or somthing the likes).....but then again
Hmm might give it a go with a little hdd I have here, I got some perspex to use as well.
Yes well I should be able to start in a couple of days and Ill let you guys know how it goes.
Later
that wicked Angel
finally someone takes up the chalange
how big is the HDD?? and dose it work?
lets us knokw if it works when u finished it and how many bad sectors and shit it adds
GOOD LUCK
if u get really god at it people might pay u to do it :P
Yeah only a 1 gig or something similar :? But hey its a start.
Yeah the drive works fine.
The HDD is not a vacuum, and the breather hole is there to equalize the pressure between inside the drive and the outside when the inside of the drive heats up and it increases in pressure (which would make it burst if there was no method of equalizing the pressure or make it implode if the temperature was lower)
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Yeah only a 1 gig or something similar :? But hey its a start.
Yeah the drive works fine.
Do you have a camera Angel? Put some pictures up if you do.. or borrow a camera off of a friend. :)
are u gonna try add LEDs also?
cause that would be nice :)