Once the material was removed the sheet I carefully cleaned up the edges of it and trimmed it to the appropriate size for my hard disk drive. Taking those little screws out of the drawer I had put them in I reattached the logic board to the bottom of the drive. Once it was firmly attached, I mounted the Lexan to the drive and screwed it on.
There, now I had a fully visual and simply modded hard drive. This project from start to finish took less than twenty minutes to accomplish.
Having completed this project, I can’t help but wonder what else I could have done to this hard drive. While the hard drive is a relatively small and compact medium to attempt to perform modding to, it doesn’t mean there aren’t more possibilities. Maybe next time I will tint the Lexan cover a different color. I could etch a design or words into the cover with either etching acid or my Dremel tool. I could cut the window out of the original metal cover on the drive and installed thinner Lexan to fill it in similar to a case window. I could also only install a partial window on the drive rather than fully exposing its innards to the world.
Modding a hard drive is a simple process and requires little more than some imagination and attention to detail.
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