Hard Drive Windowing

RuggieBear

Just wondering if anyone has tried this ?

Looks a bit mad!

p

Col_Loki

Well thats the last thing id go near in my PC. Id have no problems about cutting up my case, overclocking everything, pin mods, but messing with my hard drvie........ jaysus no.

lol, are you thinkin about having a go?

BloodBath

That sounds crazy to me, i'm sure it would look cool but even if you managed to pull it off without damaging the drive surely outside light would interfere with it.


BloodBath

RuggieBear

Col_Loki wrote:

lol, are you thinkin about having a go?

No way.....but then again i have 1.3gb piece of junk lying about here gathering dust so if i ever feel adventurous.....

p

Capt'n Midnight

t's actually quite amazing how close to the surface of the disks the heads fly without touching. To put it into perspective, a modern hard disk has a floating height of an amazing 0.5 microinches. A human hair has a thickness of over 2,000 microinches! You can see why keeping dirt out of the hard disk is so important! In fact, the floating height of a hard disk is smaller than the circuit size of a microprocessor.

http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/op/heads/opHeight.html

Dempsey

Do ya have a clean room handy?

RuggieBear

Dempsey wrote:

Do ya have a clean room handy?

I'd have to wander over to Intel and see if i could rent one of theirs for a few hours....

Stephen

Most idiotic mod ever. Once you open up your hard disk, it's ****ed.

RuggieBear

Stephen wrote:

Most idiotic mod ever. Once you open up your hard disk, it's ****ed.

I can only but agree!!!!

leeroybrown

I'd have to wander over to Intel and see if i could rent one of theirs for a few hours....

Even the class 1 clean rooms in intel aren't clean enough to attempt something like that in ...

CombatCow

Stephen wrote:

Most idiotic mod ever. Once you open up your hard disk, it's ****ed.

:rolleyes:
n00b


I will try this mod on a old hdd over the next month,should be intresting,another guide says to do it in your bathroom after the hot shower has been turned on for a while to lessen the dust in the air.


http://www.overclockers.com/tips821/



CC

Mac daddy

CombatCow wrote:

:rolleyes:
n00b


I will try this mod on a old hdd over the next month,should be intresting,another guide says to do it in your bathroom after the hot shower has been turned on for a while to lessen the dust in the air.


http://www.overclockers.com/tips821/



CC

Combat cow the mad modder go for it if i had a spare one knocking around i will give it a shot

ChipZilla

CombatCow wrote:

do it in your bathroom after the hot shower has been turned on for a while to lessen the dust in the air.

Right. Then you just have to worry about moisture in your drive instead of dust. :rolleyes:

CombatCow

Well obviously you yould leave the room to settle down for a few hours,


CC

Ajnag

Ya big bunch of no no noddy nay sayers

Go for it cc, just remember to remove the biggest source of dust in the toilets the bog roll.

The article mentions using cling film to cover the hd, but I was kinda wondering could you use the clingfilm as a dust trap in what ever container you store the hd in.

po0k

The disk *might* work immediately after the mod, but I guarantee that after a few weeks of operation, at the very latest, you'll start seeing major occurances of bad blocks and data corruption.

But go for it anyways.