how do i build external hard drive? seriously is it hard work is there any soldering required?
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Anonymous2006-11-18 5:57
No hard work or soldering required, here's the detailed procedure:
1. Go to store
2. Buy external hard disk
3. ???
4. PROFIT!
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Anonymous2006-11-18 6:45
It's cheaper and better to build your own - you know you're not getting crap-ass Maxtor or cheap unbranded drive foisted on you (get a Seagate, Samsung or Western Digital). Buy an external enclosure, buy a drive to go with it, put the latter inside the former, then prep and format it within your OS. It's incredibly easy, no soldering, just two connectors to plug in that are impossible to get wrong - if you can use a screwdriver you should have no problems (some enclosures don't even need screwdrivers, snapping together with rails, pins or thumbscrews to hold the drive and case). Just make sure you check what type of connection there is inside the enclosure (IDE or SATA) and buy an appropriate hard drive to match.
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Anonymous2006-11-18 9:30
Real men engineer their hardware from scratch. It took me fifteen years, but I finally finished my Pentium Pro clone, VROOM VROOM!!
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Anonymous2006-11-18 9:45
>>3
Maxtors have been rebranded Seagates since about six months before Seagate officially bought them, QC wise anyway. Not that there was any difference before hand. You fail.
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Anonymous2006-11-18 10:02
>>5
That would explain why they still offer shorter warranties than Seagate, why they're still cheaper, and why they still fail more often. This is how the industry works - something that doesn't pass the more stringent quality tests gets badged as a lower spec or budget model and sold cheaper. I still don't trust Maxtor-branded drives. Also, my point remains valid - build it yourself and you know exactly what you're getting.
>>9
You haven't been following the thread, have you? That's what everyone has been talking about from the start - building an external hard drive by buying an empty enclosure and putting . What, does someone using the term "build your own" offend you if they didn't solder the thing together themselves? Design and etch the PCBs? Made their own aluminum housing? Did the builders not "build" your house because they didn't make and fire the bricks themselves? Cuntrag.
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Anonymous2006-11-18 19:42
>>10
if the OP really wanted to BUILD a hdd enclosure from scratch he'd surely be intelligent enough to find ressources to do so and not ask on the motherfucking 4chan textboards
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Anonymous2006-11-19 1:48
>>11
wait asking for computer related advice/question on a computer discussion board, wow the op should be shot like the dog he is, asshole
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Anonymous2006-11-19 1:52
op here
thanks for the advice, i thought there was soldering required but now that i know there isn't i am a put one together
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Anonymous2006-11-19 5:13
>>13
No, there will probably not be much soldering required, perhaps none at all!
1. Buy all the parts you need.
2. Crack open an existing harddrive to see how things go together.
3. Put the new parts together.
4. Pray you didn't get and dust between the platters.
5. Done!, enjoy your new external HD!
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Anonymous2006-11-19 5:57
1. open case
2. take out hard drive
3. ?????
4. profit
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Anonymous2006-11-19 13:57
1. motherboard with external SATA
2. cut hole in cigar box
3. put hdd in cigar box
4. connect cable
5. ????
6. profit
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Anonymous2006-11-19 20:36
>>14 Crack open an existing harddrive
You do that then you enjoy your broken HD no matter how careful you are. You need almost a NASA-grade laboratory to do that.