RGB HDD

[Guest]

Hey guys, si i've seen that some people have made transparent HDDs, so I wanted to make RGB transparent HDDs.

I also wanted to make the RGB syncable with the HDD usage.

What do you people think ?

[flibberdipper]

It'd be super sketchy and it'd almost certainly die shortly after. Between dust getting in and not torquing things down to the exact manufacturer amounts, it's almost sure to die.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

It'd be super sketchy and it'd almost certainly die shortly after. Between dust getting in and not torquing things down to the exact manufacturer amounts, it's almost sure to die.

I wanna try... I've got old ATA hard drives that I want to kill. I'm gonna be really careful.

[Mooshi]

The one part that is almost exclusively hidden away in a cage of some sort....why?

 

Makes less sense than Thermaltake's rgb psu. The risk outweighs the reward on an HDD intended to actually be used. 

[ProjectBox153]

6 minutes ago, antoine21839 said:

I wanna try... I've got old ATA hard drives that I want to kill. I'm gonna be really careful.

NOOOOOOO! I love ATA drives! I need some too! (I'm building up a Windows Server 2003 machine)

[Mira Yurizaki]

There's also the problem of there being not enough room for anything in the drive anyway.

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

There's also the problem of there being not enough room for anything in the drive anyway.

Depending on the drive. I have a Seagate 160GB with a lot of bad sectors, so I took it apart. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Depending on the drive. I have a Seagate 160GB with a lot of bad sectors, so I took it apart. 

I'm pretty sure the drive will throw a fit if it's missing platters.

[ProjectBox153]

2 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I'm pretty sure the drive will throw a fit if it's missing platters.

No, mine still has plenty of room to the side of the read/write head. 

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, Mooshi said:

The one part that is almost exclusively hidden away in a cage of some sort....why?

 

Makes less sense than Thermaltake's rgb psu. The risk outweighs the reward on an HDD intended to actually be used. 

Thats not a problem, i'm gonna place it in the case so you can see it

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

NOOOOOOO! I love ATA drives! I need some too! (I'm building up a Windows Server 2003 machine)

I'm gonna do it on Gateau's hard drive (my PC). It has bad sectors, and makes a TERRIBLE noise all the time.

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

NOOOOOOO! I love ATA drives! I need some too! (I'm building up a Windows Server 2003 machine)

Hey, that's pretty interesting, i've got a lot of old machines and I like this kind of stuff

Just look at my main PC...

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, antoine21839 said:

Hey, that's pretty interesting, i've got a lot of old machines and I like this kind of stuff

Just look at my main PC...

Yeah, it's an old HP from my church. HP Cpmaq DX5150. Funny story, I just started to rebuild this machine today when I posted on your post and sitting next to me is the disassembled drive from that machine, the drive I mentioned a few minutes ago!

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Yeah, it's an old HP from my church. HP Cpmaq DX5150. Funny story, I just started to rebuild this machine today when I posted on your post and sitting next to me is the disassembled drive from that machine, the drive I mentioned a few minutes ago!

PM me and add me on skype, we could talk about that kind of stuff.

[ProjectBox153]

2 minutes ago, antoine21839 said:

PM me and add me on skype, we could talk about that kind of stuff.

I did the PM. 

[CalvinHobbesN7]

On 2/14/2017 at 11:54 AM, antoine21839 said:

I wanna try... I've got old ATA hard drives that I want to kill. I'm gonna be really careful.

I'd say just kill it. If you've got an old one you don't care about then just make it a good-looking accessory.