HDD mod safe?

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HDD mod safe?

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Now does it not have to be a dust free room? I mean somebody just ccan't pop thier hdd open and screw this in... would the drive not fail after awhile?
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Yea its a risk but people still do it, Thats why more people window thier optical drive than HDD's

You could do in inside a big new plastic bag to keep down the particulates if you were realy anal about it. Any dust on the platers would be like a big scratch on a CD
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I think that just goes on top of the drive... you dont open it up and replace the cover wiht it. It just slips over an existing drive to make it look less bland.
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Post by Badmojo »

Originally posted by Pugsley
I think that just goes on top of the drive... you dont open it up and replace the cover wiht it. It just slips over an existing drive to make it look less bland.

I see what you mean, the listing says -This is a hard drive "cover" for clear cases. Seems very pointless put that way
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...is that you can attach LEDs or cold cathode tubes to the edge and get some very cool lighting effects. I would not recommend opening up the hard drive to fabricate a window. You will almost certainly cause an early failure of the drive, and that will occur when you most need it (gaming in Counter Strike perhaps?).

Check out this lighting effect, using LED fans in the rear, and a cold cathode tube in the front. The transistion of green to red worked out nicely:

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