Inside (in)famous 1.8 PATA stock drive from the X4x series
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:38 pm
Hi everybody!
Out of boredom on this dull Sunday I decided to disassemble a broken 40GB 1.8 Hitachi drive I pulled out from my latest X40 purchased weeks ago. Won't be anything extremely exciting for the experience users here, but I thought I could share some pictures for curious forum members...
After removing all screws from the base and all the screws from the top (-3)
First parts taken out
IDE pins were not in good shape...
Three more screws out, The one on the lower right part was very well hidden
Innards exposed
Close up of the platters. You can almost spot my camera model from these pictures!
Final result, I decided to keep the frame with the platters like this...
... and is now joining other collectibles in my desktop PC
Enjoy!
Tasurinchi
Out of boredom on this dull Sunday I decided to disassemble a broken 40GB 1.8 Hitachi drive I pulled out from my latest X40 purchased weeks ago. Won't be anything extremely exciting for the experience users here, but I thought I could share some pictures for curious forum members...
After removing all screws from the base and all the screws from the top (-3)
First parts taken out
IDE pins were not in good shape...
Three more screws out, The one on the lower right part was very well hidden
Innards exposed
Close up of the platters. You can almost spot my camera model from these pictures!
Final result, I decided to keep the frame with the platters like this...
... and is now joining other collectibles in my desktop PC
Enjoy!
Tasurinchi