First post, by Jed118
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So I came across this square display case for something or other. After examining it, I decided to put these (nonworking) hard disks into it:
There's a Seagate Barracuda 10K SCSI, a 6.4Gb Bigfoot, a Miniscribe 20 Mb MFM, and a Conner drive out of a 425LTE. I've opened them all up, they will all spin up.
Here's a peek of what I'm on about:
First attempts at powering it:
Now, I opened up the power supply to trim all the extra leads I will not be needing right at the PCB (basically all the ATX motherboard connectors) and I must have dropped a wire or some other conductive material because when I fired the power supply back on, it exploded and smoke came out. I could not find out where it was shorted, but I had already pre-drilled the holes for mounting it.
I found these though:
After taking a hammer to the casing, and removing them with the utmost precision, I soldered the grounds together and had myself +5v and +12v. The 12v power adapter is rated at 4A, and the 5v at 2.6A. I tested three drives (all but the small laptop Conner) and they all powered on without hesitation.
Sorry about the blurriness, I am working on this during 15 minute breaks and taking pics on an older smartphone.
Here they are both mounted on a piece of the plexiglass I cut out of the bottom of the display case. I drilled partial holes where the raised nut was for the old power supply's PCB and glued the assembly to that.
I then ran an external (120v) switch and an internal white LED for the hell of it.
Here it is so far:
The switch is mounted on the top panel of the display case:
What's left:
-Mount the hard disks
-Power the hard disks, RGB LED and wire up individual switches
-Figure out how to punch a hole in the wooden base (not shown) so as to not damage the lazy Susan in the process.
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