Arrr! External HDD enlosure pirate style!

[Eclecticos]

Sorry Jack, but your picture had to come out

Now that's Funny!
I have a treasure chest also. Never thought of modding it.

[chaksq]

Cool mod!

I'm a little confused about the HD though. Laptop HDs (2.5") are 44 pins. SCSI HDs use 50pins. Are you sure the drive is not SCSI, there may be SCSI laptop sized drives.

[DeathCrush]

Cool mod!

I'm a little confused about the HD though. Laptop HDs (2.5") are 44 pins. SCSI HDs use 50pins. Are you sure the drive is not SCSI, there may be SCSI laptop sized drives.

Ohh, it is an IDE drive, I took it out of my laptop when I put a faster drive in it. I thought all laptop drives were 50 pins because all of the 2.5" to 3.5" adapters say 50-to-40 pins (because of the power pins and hdd light pins that are on the little adapter board) Either or, I still haven't been able to find a 50 or a 44 pin cable that would work. It's alright though, the way I have it now should work just fine.

By the way, thanks for all of the comments so far guys! Hopefully I will get the rest of the parts in by the end of the week and have it all done by the weekend. Arr, stay tuned mateys!

[Greco101]

Thats an expensive usb cover

looks awesome though! It makes me want to make something similar for a "Pirates of the Burning Sea" theme (game coming out soon)

[DeathCrush]

Thats an expensive usb cover

looks awesome though! It makes me want to make something similar for a "Pirates of the Burning Sea" theme (game coming out soon)

Wow, my friend got mine for $0.50, looks like someone is heavily over charging for that thing (mine came with a cooler chain too :p)

My roommates and I saw Pirates of the Burning Sea a while back also, looks like it's going to be pretty cool

[Luke122]

Yeah man, good call on the "pirate" theme.
I'm suprised that there arent more cool pirate mods out there!

[doesi87]

Very nice idea. It will look great sitting on a desk or on a shelf.

For the heat problem: I built a gameboy-HDD at the moment and did some heat-testing shortly ago. It is also a 2.5 HDD and has about 5 mm space around it. After one hour of copying it was about 35°C. /95°F and it has only a few little vents on the bottom side. So I think the heat will be not that much of a problem with these notebook HDD's.

And I like Bucko's idea of a wooden tray in the same style as the chest if possible.

[DeathCrush]

Yea I was checking the drive inside my laptop to see the temp on it and it doesn't get too hot (especially figuring that inside a laptop will actually have less air space around it).

If anything I might put on some of the BFG stick on heatsinks that i have used in the past, they always seemed to work pretty well. Thanks for the comments!

[DeathCrush]

Ahoy, me mateys!!! Just a quick update here to help keep all of you seafaring bilge rats content and not thinking of mutiny!

Haha, man I'm really getting into the pirate talk thing again. Anyways, I just received my gold cable sleeving in the mail from cableorganizer.com and felt like sharing. I figured I would put it around the USB cable that the computer uses to connect to the device - thought it might make it look more piratey

Here is what it will look like when everything is all connected up. It looks pretty cool. Arr, better than just a solid color wire me thinks!

I was/am unsure of how to terminate the ends however. I want it to look piratey but be effective at the same time so that it doesn't fray over time. Right now I just shrink wrapped it in place. If anyone has any ideas, please voice them.

I have a 6 foot cable here and ordered just 6 feet of cable sleeving. That was fine and all until I realized that when the sleeving is widened out to fit a wire through it, it shortens in length just a bit. Unfortunately now my sleeving is about 6 inches too short. No worries though, I figure I'll just use this as the end that I connect to the back of the computer with since no one will see it anyways.

And that's it for now again. All I am waiting on is the right angle USB adapter for inside the chest. Hopefully it will be in tomorrow or the day after so I can finish this thing.

On an off topic note, I went and saw Pirates 3 again for a second time last night It was even better the second time around. So as your Captain, I suggest if you haven't seen it yet, go! And better yet, go twice, it will make more sense the second time around! ARRR!

[Darth Invader]

I liked the idea... Really an ideal box to save a hd with valuable data!
However this box for being wooden, is not it going to heat very and do it to pledge HD? Or do you intend to add fans to assist in the refrigeration?

Hugs, and I'm observing!

Darth