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Ghetto drive gives new meaning to homebrew

This "Ghetto Drive" was built by taking the innards of an Iomega external USB2/Firewire drive and implanting them into an ordinary cardboard box. The drive was built because the fan broke in the original enclosure and like a true maker, this one decided not to shell out the cash for a new one.

The Ghetto Drive

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Posted by: Me on June 20, 2008 at 7:59 AM

Why

How is this even worth posting?

Posted by: BigD145 on June 20, 2008 at 6:10 PM

This is a very weak Make.

Posted by: max on June 21, 2008 at 3:05 AM

exept from being noisy, ugly and bulky
cooling a hardrive, according to google labs, could even make it more likely to fail.
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

I would rather get one of these SATA-docks or usb-ide converters and travel around with the bare HDs the only thing you have to do is to sufficiently protect the circuit-board.

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