I downloaded the technical manual for the Mini other day.
The Mini has interesting instructions for opening. Reminds me of the classic style Macs. Break out the wide putty knives!
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DCJensen - Apr 04, 2005 6:00:40 am PDT #2269 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Betsy HP - Apr 04, 2005 7:56:01 am PDT #2270 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
How much geek-nature does it take to salvage an old hard drive from an IBM thinkpad and put it into a case? I know somebody here did it, and I'm thinking of doing the same.
Are we talking soldering? Screwing? Oscilloscopes?
tommyrot - Apr 04, 2005 8:01:53 am PDT #2271 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How much geek-nature does it take to salvage an old hard drive from an IBM thinkpad and put it into a case?
I'm gonna guess "very little." (I'm assuming that laptop HDs use the same IDE and power connectors that regular HDs use, or that you can get adapters if they don't. But I'm not 100% sure of this.) You just need to get a case that can hold a small laptop HD.
Are we talking soldering? Screwing? Oscilloscopes?
Screwing?
Wait, what kind of drive was that?
eta: Wait, do you mean an external HD case, or inside a computer case?
Betsy HP - Apr 04, 2005 8:03:45 am PDT #2272 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
I mean an external HD case.
tommyrot - Apr 04, 2005 8:11:59 am PDT #2273 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Here's something that might work: [link]
This will work with a 2.5" laptop drive. But I am confused as to why they say it'll work on 4200RPM drives up to 40 Gig. I don't see why the RPM or capacity would matter. They also say,
You'll need to fdisk & format the drive before use
Which I would think would not be necessary if the OS on the computer you're gonna attach it to can support the filetype of the drive.
But anyway, try googling 'external hard drive case laptop' for other possibilities.
ETA: [link]
EXTERNAL USB 2.0 CASE FOR LAPTOP 2.5" HARD DRIVE - $11
tommyrot - Apr 04, 2005 9:25:42 am PDT #2274 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jessica - Apr 04, 2005 9:31:59 am PDT #2275 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Terabyte desktop HDs
Guh.
P.M. Marc - Apr 04, 2005 9:54:12 am PDT #2276 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm gonna guess "very little." (I'm assuming that laptop HDs use the same IDE and power connectors that regular HDs use, or that you can get adapters if they don't. But I'm not 100% sure of this.) You just need to get a case that can hold a small laptop HD.
You can get adapters. Paul had to do that to pull the data from my mother's old hard drive after someone (probably my niece) got water on her laptop. As I recall, it wasn't difficult.
Hey, one Terabyte desktop HDs may arrive in 2007. That'd be about 200,000 mp3s.
Man, I remember back when terabyte was just sexy-sexy future spec.
tommyrot - Apr 04, 2005 9:56:46 am PDT #2277 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Wasn't Data's (ST:tNG) memory capacity measured in terabytes?
NoiseDesign - Apr 04, 2005 10:19:32 am PDT #2278 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
If I add up all the storage space I've got in my apartment right now I'm getting very close to a Terabyte.