Arrr! External HDD enlosure pirate style!

[DeathCrush]

I was wondering about that, we were discussing on the heat issue earlier. I will probably end up putting some stick on heatsinks on the drive to aid in the cooling that I have used in the past that work well.

[xmastree]

Here is what it will look like when everything is all connected up. It looks pretty cool.

Cool, yes. But that wire doesn't look piratey at all. It's too shiny and high tech. It ought to be a rusty anchor chain, or a rope.

Could you find some three stranded rope, with the strands about the size of the cable? You might be able to unravel one strand and 'weave' the usb cable back in its place. Then paint it up to look old and scabby.

Or, I remember seeing some rope with a woven out wrapped round a central core. Remove the core and pass the outer over the cable like you did with the stainless.

Then, for the ends, whip them.

[DeathCrush]

Arr! Tis' be completed! The USB cable came in today so I was able to finish everything this afternoon. Here are the final pictures:

All closed up and ready to go (fitting enough, the POTC At World's End soundtrack is sitting behind it ). It looks like a regular pirate treasure chest but...

...on the inside is a harddrive, ARR!

Just a quick closeup of the POTC locket that covers the USB connector.

A final picture showing the chest. Arr!

All in all, this was a fun little project. Its main purpose is just going to be to store all of my piratey stuff such as pirate music and my Monkey Island games. Don't worry though, nothing was "pirated" everything is legal that will be in this

Since I'm running (and have been running since I was a kid) Linux, I am going to make an ext3 partition to store everything on it. Not that anyone really cares, just figured I would share.

If anyone has any questions or comments or whatever, feel free to post them. Constructive criticism is always allowed. I actually did get a little metal skull and cross swords pendant that I plan on putting on the other side of the chest to help balance the two sides out, so I will be sure to add the pictures when I get it done.

[NocturnaL]

Although i hate pirates, i must admit this is a cool mod. I like the idea you have for the input. (Ninjas ftw)

[psychowit]

nice Won't it overheat though???

[simon275]

Question

nice Won't it overheat though???

Answer

I was wondering about that, we were discussing on the heat issue earlier. I will probably end up putting some stick on heatsinks on the drive to aid in the cooling that I have used in the past that work well.

[DeathCrush]

Haha, thank you simon, you're one step ahead of me As far as those heatsinks go, I still have yet to put them on (actually I haven't even bought them yet) BUT at the same time, the drive hasn't overheated or anything. So who knows if I will or not.

[XxRiddleOutxX]

im just saying. wont it get hot in there?