Portable Hard Drive mod.

Decided that my portable hard drive was the exact same as everyone elses.....so I modded it. and what better to do than to put it inside of a NES video game.

so here is the hard drive... a 2.5" Seagate 500gb HDD

Just run a razorblade around the edge to break the seal of the glue holding the enclosure together

now for the difficult part.... choosing what game I am going to gut My NES still works, and I still play it, so that eliminated Mario/Duckhunt. I just can't bring myself to cut on my gold cased Legend of Zelda. After looking through all my games, this is the one I chose.

While some might not like the choice, this is actually a rare game that I played a ton growing up. It was actually pretty fun. Plus it was assembled with standard Phillips head screws as opposed to the star shaped ones.

Remove the screws

Wow... didn't realize that the game(chip) was that small..... only 3 chips 8 resistors and 4 capacitors.

These pegs are in the way and will have to go.

I don't really want to spend a lot of time on this, and everything is internal, so I am just going to cut with the dremel and sand......doesn't have to be perfect

The hard drive fits fine. Now just need to make room for the IO port.

Just a small cut, and it is fine. connected the USB cable to see how much clearance I need on the top....only 2mm

Drilled 1 small hole and splice a couple wires and Now I have an HDD activity light

Final product

Total time taken to mod this.......just 1 hour.

Hope you enjoyed.

Pretty cool. Although I think the golden Zelda case would have looked better Smile

$0.99

http://cgi.ebay.com/LEGEND-ZEL.....27bc86be34

That is awesome.
A 1 hour mod? That must be a new record Razz

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Best choice for case!

Considering this was Bible Adventures

I might just have to mod a Gideon Bible to hold a hdd now

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DarthBeavis wrote:

I might just have to mod a Gideon Bible to hold a hdd now

Are you going to leave it in the drawer of a seedy motel after you are done?

CyberCrist wrote:

DarthBeavis wrote:

I might just have to mod a Gideon Bible to hold a hdd now

Are you going to leave it in the drawer of a seedy motel after you are done?

you think my hdds have seedy material on them?

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DarthBeavis wrote:

CyberCrist wrote:

DarthBeavis wrote:

I might just have to mod a Gideon Bible to hold a hdd now

Are you going to leave it in the drawer of a seedy motel after you are done?

you think my hdds have seedy material on them?

lol

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CyberCrist wrote:

Pretty cool. Although I think the golden Zelda case would have looked better Smile

$0.99

http://cgi.ebay.com/LEGEND-ZEL.....27bc86be34

Thanks for the tip.... I'm gonna buy one and do the exact same thing. I just didn't want to screw up my gold zelda case Very Happy

This such a cool mod. Nice job!!!

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Very cool!!

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Okay... so I got tired of the Baby blue case and I found a better one. Here is what My hard drive looks like now.

DSCN0949 by Jeffpiso, on Flickr

DSCN0950 by Jeffpiso, on Flickr