Kindle DXG

An friend from USA bought a Kindle DXG for me, it really looks very nice

Cheap HDD bracket

I use a very old Computer Case at home, it has only 3 3.5 HDD slots, and hard to install.

Some days ago, I bought a Seagate 7200.12 1TB HDD (mmmm…, Seagate again >.<), and a HDD bracket. The bracket costs 7$, sounds cheap, let’s look it:

It comes with screws, for install 4 HDDs and fixate into case.

OK, this is two HDDs fixated on it, looks very nice:

Finally, in the case:

Repair it yourself

My office computer has a Seagate 7200.11 500G HDD. One day morning when I powered on the machine, I got this:

The HDD disappered in BIOS, so I got a Seagate brick… and I lost 500G data.

If I send this brick to Seagate, I can sure I’ll lost my data forever, so I decide repair it myself.

First, I bought a Nokia CA-42 Cable, cost about 0.7$, and jointing it with minimal plug head:

Second, plug a thin plastic strip between the HDD motor and PCB:

OK, all ready.

Plug the CA-42 Cable in to an bootable computer and install cable driver, launch terminal, get into HDD factory mode, type commands to repair(reset) it. 10 minutes later, all data is back.

Then, I update this HDD firmware from SD15 to SD1A, prevent it damage again.