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Tibia
 Post subject: Useless but cool cosmetic mod.... (56k warning)
PostPosted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:54 am 
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I mentioned somewhere I do custom jump drives and external HDDs. Here's one I threw together quickly for my brother.

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The completed drive. I've got wiring nearly to the edge of the opening, so it was filled in with hot glue for insulating, then cut and sanded smooth. There wasn't time or room to do a plexi window.


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His custom label. The clear sealant is still drying, so it looks worse than it is. Too bad this is the only photo op I have.


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When I do labels, I do labels right.



It's a 120 gb Samsung SATA drive. There's a USB/IDE/SATA adapter in there. It's stripped down, and hard-wired to the drive itself.



EDIT: I had to take it apart since the HDD died. I put in a new 160 gb Seagate SATA drive. (5 yr Warranty FTW!) I thought I'd post a pic of the insides for everyone's amusement. It may look like crap from the inside, but it came apart and went back together without me having to redo anything, so I'm happy with it.

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EDIT 2: Pics were moved, URLs fixed.

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nice! i like!

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Thats ot to be the retroest hard drive out there! COOL!

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Nice case mod. But like you said that label is the seller, it's very professional looking.

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Cool. Nice job. 8)

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Very cool! :D

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Nice mod tibia!

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Thanks for the great comments, everyone. It was fun to do. :)

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nice job, gave me and idea to do on some broken NES carts i have :wink:
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I had to replace the HDD, so everyone have a laugh at the insides! I added to my first post.

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Too bad on the HD breaking, it worked perfect before hand

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Loving the label! :D

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Beautimous.

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Nice bump. :wink:

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Nice bump. :wink:


I freaked out seeing A CTF post. :(

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