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HardDrive Mod Question

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Elmntskater1588

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Im putting a window in an old w.d. 3gb harddrive. im not confident enough(lacking a clean room) to mod my real harddrive so im basicly putting the 3gb harddrive in to my case just for looks. i want it the head to scramble all around is there any way i could do this? What would hooking power up to it do>?
:D Thanks!
 
I'm not an expert, but I think the only way to keep it constantly moving is to fill it with data and have it constantly seeking files.

If you really wanted to, I'm sure you could fill it with 3GB of files and create a small program to constantly search for these files or some crap like that.

Simply hooking up power to it won't make it do much. You MIGHT be able to figure out a way to make a "fake" data cable and find a way to constantly have it send data to and from it, but that would probably be more effort and electronics work than it will be worth.
 
Hooking up power to the drive will power the electronics and spin up the motor, but the heads won't do anything. The drive isn't going to do anything until it is told to do something.
 
I think ness is right, you could write a batch file or something , or you could try experimenting with defragging utils and the like.
 
Just put your Windows swapfile on it. It'll never stop moving. And if it ends up dying, no loss of data.
 
Yeah that will even improve the stability of your computer....making your swapfile a fixed size on a diffrent drive is a good thing :)
 
Putting a swap file on an old, slow drive is usually not a good idea.

edit: I don't see how that would improve stability of the system. If that improves the stability then something else is messed up in the first place.
 
if you run low on HD space and you have a dynamic swap file, windows will fight with other programs for the space it needs.....usually crashing the system.

If your swap is fixed size, it will allocate all of its space when it boots up. No problems.
 
Dr3wStx said:
if you run low on HD space and you have a dynamic swap file, windows will fight with other programs for the space it needs.....usually crashing the system.

If your swap is fixed size, it will allocate all of its space when it boots up. No problems.
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Well then the solution is to not run low on space. Like I said, that is the problem and it can by fixed without having to put the swap file on another hard drive. Putting the swap file on a slower hard drive will only hurt performance.
 
Dr3wStx said:
if you run low on HD space and you have a dynamic swap file, windows will fight with other programs for the space it needs.....usually crashing the system.

If your swap is fixed size, it will allocate all of its space when it boots up. No problems.
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Putting your swap on an old slow drive that has been opened up will kill ANY stability. Don't even think about that. There is a reason they put them together in a static-free cleanroom.

Also constantly searching that drive will KILL any performance you have. You don't want to waste clock cycles on something silly like that.

You could build a controller board to make the head move, or keep the drive from spinning down. There are people on this board that could help with that.
 
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