Harddisk Vifte Mod

[Knutv]

Hei. kjedet meg litt i dag og bestemte meg for å lage en hdvifte. Skrev litt om prosjektet på engelsk til bruk i bloggen min, tenkte jeg kunne poste det her og

 

Beklager skrivefeil, engelsken er ikke særlig bra.

 

Merk disclaimeren.

 

EDIT: Filmsnutt av vifta

 

 

 

Got a broken harddrive and a 80 mm (or larger) computerfan you dont use?

 

Make a HDfan!

 

 

No, not this type

 

 

 

But this :

 

its kinda crazy, but it works!

Im not gonna go totally tutorialish on you so ask if you want to know some more about the buildingprocess.

 

You need:

 

 

A standard 80mm computer fan (as in fan which blows air, not a computer geek)

ive used a 90mm taken from a PSU

 

 

And a harddrive you dont wanna use for its original purpose anymore.

I found one with only 1 disc, I think it was about 200megabytes

 

 

 

First you cut the fan out of its frame and cut the cables (you wont be needing them later)

 

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Take the cover off the harddrive

 

 

 

Remove all the removeable parts.

 

 

 

 

 

Remove the engine from the fan so it can be mounted to the harddrive and used without spinning , this is kinda hard, so you can use a screw to fasten the fan to the engine instead. (I did the last thing)

 

Im not sure if all harddrives has this, but use the nut that fastens the disc to the rest of the harddrive, and put it on the rearside of the fan, (the side where the cables where going)

 

Then you need to make the nut stick to the fan, I think there are better ways of doing this, but I melted the plastic on the fan and made the nut fit.

like this:

 

 

the last part is easy, find 4 screws the right size and screw them into the harddrive where the nut was before, then cut of the heads and put the fan on mounting the nut with the screws, you might wanna fasten it with additional nuts on each screw and maybe fill it with glue just to be sure Make sure the fan is balanced.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your result would probably look like this. Now connect it to a 12v molex connector in your computer (do not connect any data cables like the IDE cable) and wait for the result. If you got a spare PSU, you might wanna use this to test it with first, because the fan could loosen, and get throwed into the air (happend to me the first time, before i fastened it with additional nuts ) The PSU could also get overloaded, so be careful.

 

It got a pretty nice airflow, but you should not use it inside a computercase,

its just not meant to be

 

 

 

 

 

Disclaimer:

Only do this if you got experience in building computers.

I would never have used this fan in my new, expensive computer. No way. and neither should you. its just a simple experiment showing its possible. Use equipment you dont care for, you wont be able to recover data from your disk after this. dont do this at home, or.. do it at home, just dont hurt anyone or anything that would hurt anyone.

 

 

 

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KUDi

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Endret 6. august 2006 av Knutv

[lokeland]

Det hadde vært fint med bilder som funker! =)

[Knutv]

Det hadde vært fint med bilder som funker! =)

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Merkelig.. funka på forhåndsvisningen, men nå har jeg skifta bildeserver, bør fungere nå

[Kjekssjokolade]

Bildene funker, dette ser artig ut

 

Har du film av saka når den snurre snurrer

[Knutv]

Bildene funker, dette ser artig ut

 

Har du film av saka når den snurre snurrer

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Kan ta opp en snutt imorgen

 

EDIT: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-687530884886224173

Endret 6. august 2006 av Knutv

[Klekkus]

Haha, vifte på 7200 RPM FTW litt mye vibrasjoner?

[Knutv]

Haha, vifte på 7200 RPM FTW litt mye vibrasjoner?

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Ja, en god del! klarte ikke å holde den stille engang

[lokeland]

Morsomt med sånne time-killer prosjekt! Ser veldig morsomt ut. Har prøvd det samme, bare med en CD-ROM motor som fikk alt for mye strøm og til slutt så *poff*! =)

[the_dragon_ts]

fin ide, men trur ikke den er så praktisk

[Knutv]

fin ide, men trur ikke den er så praktisk     

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Veldig upraktisk fant jeg ut ville aldri brukt den i en pc jeg brydde meg om.. Det er så mye vibrasjoner at eventuelle andre harddisker ville fått store problemer med å fungere, for ikke å snakke om cdromstasjoner.

 

Egentlig mest for å se om det gikk

 

har en scsi disk liggende jeg tenkte å teste det samme på

[Klekkus]

Kjøpe deg en 250mm vifte?