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OEM Hard Drive With Window

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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."

2 of 411 comments (clear)

  1. Re:They are just now making these? by bhtooefr · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's called the IBM 62PC.

    There's one sitting in a lab that I have class in, and it's totally transparent.

  2. Video mirror by vidnet · · Score: 4, Informative

    Heavily slashdotted, but here's a mirror of the video (more as it downloads).