How To Make USB Hard Drive using a Dead Hard Disk

Using a dead Hard Drive, a 4-port USB hub, and a few Flash Drives, we will kill some time and get a few laughs from anyone seeing you use this.

Step 1Find a candidate.

Any Hard Drive should do..

Step 2Dismantle..

Take the Hard Drive apart...

Step 3Compare

Make sure your USB hub will fit, either with the plastic case on, or not...

Step 4Hub

For this purpose, I removed the plastic case. 

Step 5Install

I placed the "nekkid" USB hub into the area where the platter used to be.

Note: I was only placing this temporarily, if I was going to keep this mod permanent, I would glue the hub in either using epoxy or hot glue.

Edit: I forgot to mention, if this was going to be used permanently, I would coat the circuit board with epoxy, just like I do with Flash Drives.

Step 6Flash Me!

Now add your Flash Drives, you may have to remove the casing for some to fit well.

Step 7Button it up.

Replace the cover to the Hard Drive, and plug in!

Now you will have a "new" Flash Drive that will be sure to get some comments.

Also, there is a way, I haven't done it, but with a certain flavor of Linux, you can install Linux onto all 4 of the Flash drives in a RAID configuration, assuming you have all the same capacities.

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