OEM Hard Drive With Window

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 5, 2006 @10:21AM from the making-it-just-to-easy dept.

SJasperson writes "At last, you don't need to mess around with Dremel tools and Lexan (and destroy your valuable data) to get a clear window in your hard drive. Western Digital has released the Raptor X 150GB SATA hard drive. 10,000 RPM, 4.6ms seek time, 16MB buffer, and, yes, a clear window so you can see what's going on inside. Made out of a special polycarbonate lens with an ESD-dissipative coating, the lens is designed to let case modders and their groupies see the drive platters and heads without sacrificing data integrity."

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up next... by User+956 · 2006-01-05 10:23 · Score: 5, Funny

And coming soon, the first OEM Hard drive where you can literally see your data go bad.

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Hey look ! by bushboy · 2006-01-05 10:24 · Score: 4, Funny

... what ?

wasn't that a porn movie you just downloaded ?

Huh, how can you tell ?

Well, I swear the heads started moving faster ?

Yeah - look, the platters are spinning like crazy !

Bzzzzt - bzt bzt bztttt - click clack clack thwack click clack

What was that ?

Er, windows update I think .. ?

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Well that's no fun :( by reverendG · 2006-01-05 10:24 · Score: 4, Funny

They're taking all of the fun out of it! What's the point of modding your case if it doesn't involve power tools and the risk of damage to expensive components?!

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1. Re:Well that's no fun :( by RavenDarkholme · 2006-01-05 10:31 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  What's the point of modding your case if it doesn't involve power tools and the risk of damage to expensive components?!
  Oh come now. What about all the poor unfortunates with no access to nor knowledge of power tools? What of the non-geek guys trying to impress the geek grrrls? The poor fools that everyone laughs at during lan parties with their Micron Windows ME PC's from Costco?
  
  The poseurs. Will no one think of the poseurs?
  
  Truly, this is a fine day for wannabes everywhere.
No WAY! by freeze128 · 2006-01-05 10:26 · Score: 4, Funny

...And just let some flunky with a laser pointer come by and screw up all my data? You must be shrooming!
in other news by shitzu · 2006-01-05 10:28 · Score: 5, Funny

Kingston is planning to release ram modules with a window by Q2 2006
The Title by McGiraf · 2006-01-05 10:35 · Score: 5, Funny

The title scared me , buy a OEM drive and it has Windows on it!
Re:Is it just me? by Intron · 2006-01-05 10:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Troubleshooting chart

1) Head not moving - drive dead.
2) Head moving too much - not enough memory.
3) Head lying at bottom of case - drive broken.

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Re:Is it just me? by toleraen · 2006-01-05 10:51 · Score: 4, Funny

Problems like finding lost files, damaged partition tables, and fragmentation! Is that grub installed in the MBR, or lilo? Now we'll be able to look and find out!
Re:Why would it be silly? by Knight+Thrasher · 2006-01-05 10:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Isn't it funny that my case has windows, now my hard drives will have windows, but not contained within either is Windows®?
Re:Is it just me? by ozbird · 2006-01-05 11:40 · Score: 4, Funny

Don't even get me started on women's fashions...

I'd like to see windows in women's fashion - the internals are far more interesting.
Re:Is it just me? by Ohreally_factor · 2006-01-05 11:59 · Score: 4, Funny

I know it used to be that mounting a drive vertically used to shorten the lifespan of the drive

That's because until the invention of stickier platters, all the bits would eventually drift down to the bottom of a platter, thus causing it to wobble out of balance.

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