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Hard Drive Window

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-shouldn't dept.

Xx Shinwa xX writes "This guy has done what was thought to be impossible: he has opened his hard drive and installed a clear acrylic window. And it still works. I would love to try this, if I had the guts."

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  1. Usefool by biocute · · Score: 5, Funny

    This guy deserves a usefool entry.

    One day I'll get around to making a window for my CDROM, so that I can see what's going on when there's no CD inside.

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    1. Re:Usefool by MarkGriz · · Score: 5, Funny

      "One day I'll get around to making a window for my CDROM, so that I can see what's going on when there's no CD inside."

      Excellent. Maybe this same technology can be applied to a refrigerator so we can see what happens when the door is closed.

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    2. Re:Usefool by Sketch · · Score: 4, Funny

      > Excellent. Maybe this same technology can be applied to a refrigerator so we can see what happens when the door is closed.

      Just wait until you can see all of the bodies in the trunk of my car through the trunk window!

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    3. Re:Usefool by cyberchondriac · · Score: 5, Funny

      The light is in a state of superposition:
      It is both on and off !

      Oh, it's a Quasar refrigerator ? I thought you said quantum !
      ;-)

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    4. Re:Usefool by Linker3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Eh, so someone installs Windows on his hard disk and it's news? Why no, I didn't RTFA

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  2. uh huh by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 4, Funny

    And it still works

    For now...

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  3. Cool... but by swilde23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where's the blue LEDs???

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    1. Re:Cool... but by danieljpost · · Score: 5, Funny

      Blue LED's hadn't been invented yet when this story was news.

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  4. The real question is. . . by smooth+wombat · · Score: 4, Funny

    will the acrylic melt if he uses the drive in his server and posts the link to Slashdot?

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  5. Now I can see my hard drive crash by digitaldc · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...IN REAL TIME!

    Microsoft will be suing for patent infringement for putting windows on hard drives.

    Just for fun, a hard drive undone: http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image /9/0,1425,sz=1&i=93587,00.jpg

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  6. Re:Vacuum? by digitaldc · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought the inside of a hard drive was a vacuum.. am I wrong?

    Only if it is by a brand that really sucks.

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  7. Heck I Just Did This by fdiskne1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Our intern was messing around with old hard drives and decided to take off the cover of one, plug it in and let it run. It worked fine, so I touched my finger to it. It still ran, so I licked my finger and touched it. Oops. Blue Screen. I didn't think the heads were close enough to the disk to get a good read so I put some pressure behind it. Let me tell you, the noise that makes isn't nearly so annoying to the person doing it as it is to everyone else in the room. The hard drive platter now looks quite similar to an LP record's grooves. Cool. Okay, I didn't put a window on the drive. So what? This was more fun.

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  8. Re:Yippy-Skippy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    " This drive is BRAND NEW (still in the static wrap) sitting right next to me as I type this. Personally, I think the hardest part of this whole mod was gluing (Did I spell that right? lol.) the plexi back onto the drive cover."

    For you maybe, but I suspect the hardest part for most anyone else would be finding a friend stupid enough to ruin a brand new hard drive.

  9. I've run a naked drive for a week by yeremein · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was writing a disk imaging utility for my company and I had to deal with bad sectors properly. Couldn't find a drive with bad sectors so I decided to make one. I pulled the cover off an old hard drive and hooked it up to my machine, figuring the dust would cause bad sectors soon enough.

    The blasted thing ran just fine for a week.

    Eventually I tried writing on the platter with a dry-erase marker while it was spinning. That didn't even kill it. But a little scratch with a screwdriver killed it dead.

  10. No, see... by paranode · · Score: 5, Funny

    He installed Windows and it still worked.