So, to go back to an earlier post, lets just say that we're rocking out like only robots on the Autobahn can. The transfer of hard drives from my bricked mp3 player into the used one was fairly seamless. We couldn't get the back case of the newly acquired one and had to rip it off and replace it with the same part from the bricked one, thats all. Now we have two batteries and two power supplies!
This scheme was inspired by an overarching theme of life here at diezer Bloggy Blog, that of
Hard Drive Enclosures. Those of you out there in the blogosphere probably have dealt at some point with your laptop breaking. Laptops generally like to break in a way that requires about $400 worth of repair, usually through a break in the cheaply made motherboard.
"Fuck it", you say, it's worth it just to get a new one. But before you do, don't get conned in to shelling out another $100 or so to have the data on your old hard drive 'transferred' to the hard drive on your new laptop. If you can take out the old hard drive yourself, you can get a hard drive enclosure for ~$20 and have access to all of your files in the form of a portable, usb-powered, external hard drive. We got this one from
Tiger Direct for $17 shipped. It's plug and play compatible with Macs and PCs, and can fit quite a bit of pirated material. Unfortunately it takes up two usb ports when plugged in, but hey, its an external hard drive for $17! Come to think of it, it might even be worth it to have one of these lying around for that inevitable moment when you
need your files and
they are telling you to ship your laptop to the Dell/Geek Squad repair hub in You Might Never Get It Back, KY.
So, to go back to an earlier post, lets just say that we're rocking out like only robots on the Autobahn can. The transfer of hard drives from my bricked mp3 player into the used one was fairly seamless. We couldn't get the back case of the newly acquired one and had to rip it off and replace it with the same part from the bricked one, thats all. Now we have two batteries and two power supplies!
This scheme was inspired by an overarching theme of life here at diezer Bloggy Blog, that of Hard Drive Enclosures. Those of you out there in the blogosphere probably have dealt at some point with your laptop breaking. Laptops generally like to break in a way that requires about $400 worth of repair, usually through a break in the cheaply made motherboard. "Fuck it", you say, it's worth it just to get a new one. But before you do, don't get conned in to shelling out another $100 or so to have the data on your old hard drive 'transferred' to the hard drive on your new laptop. If you can take out the old hard drive yourself, you can get a hard drive enclosure for ~$20 and have access to all of your files in the form of a portable, usb-powered, external hard drive. We got this one from Tiger Direct for $17 shipped. It's plug and play compatible with Macs and PCs, and can fit quite a bit of pirated material. Unfortunately it takes up two usb ports when plugged in, but hey, its an external hard drive for $17! Come to think of it, it might even be worth it to have one of these lying around for that inevitable moment when you need your files and they are telling you to ship your laptop to the Dell/Geek Squad repair hub in You Might Never Get It Back, KY.
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