[Klaustrophobia]

you can always take some bits of sheet metal, super glue and a dremel tool and modify it yourself

[Nuke]

i kinda thought about making a wooden case once. take a cross section out of a case sized log, hollow out one side. then id take a skillsaw a hammer and some chisels and hollow out a cavity for the mobo. clean it up with a router and a power sander. use a sawzall to cut out a bay for the cd drive. id also make a place for a psu and hard drive and a couple of fans and probibly a cavity in the rear for the back panel connections, probibly drill some holes for ventilation. then id give the whole thing a few coats of varnish, give it a nice finish. then id cut the back panel out of a cheap metal case, and attatch it to the inside some how (drywall screws or maybe epoxy). probibly also lign the interior with copper mesh for shielding (maybe even embedded within the finish, which would look awesome) finally id have a cover made from laser cut acrylic, complete with fan mounts and vent holes, perhaps two layers with some of that copper mesh sandwiched between them, for extra shielding. the whole thing would have about an inch of wood minimum in all places. something like that would be durable as ****. maybe casemod a rustic looking monitor as well, perhaps even a wood keyboard and mouse to go with it. the cost would be fairly minimal, save for the laser cut parts.

[Kosh]

So what stopped you?

[Nuke]

im lazy

[S-99]

If it's a hard drive with moving parts, i'd remove it from the case before transport despite it being housed in a heavy duty case with rubber wraps. I wouldn't bother removing the hard drive if it was an ssd.

Modern day magnetic storage hard drives i wouldn't trust through serious bumps and scrapes simply because they still do use some relatively fragile parts. That's my take on it, while at the same time i have seen some hard drives take one hell of a beating and still be just fine for the average 5 year operational time. Better to be safer than sorry in the end.

[Bob-san]

If it's a hard drive with moving parts, i'd remove it from the case before transport despite it being housed in a heavy duty case with rubber wraps. I wouldn't bother removing the hard drive if it was an ssd.

Modern day magnetic storage hard drives i wouldn't trust through serious bumps and scrapes simply because they still do use some relatively fragile parts. That's my take on it, while at the same time i have seen some hard drives take one hell of a beating and still be just fine for the average 5 year operational time. Better to be safer than sorry in the end.

Seconded. When I was going to college in Miami, I'd remove the hard drives and the huge heatsink from my computer and bring them with me in my carry-on.

[S-99]

My old 5.25" 12gb quantum bigfoot easily survived a 5 foot drop on accident the day i got it and worked for years and had a normal life.

Whereas a standard western digital or even a seagate 3.25" hard drives usually can't handle a 3 foot drop (and that is how i actually bent one of the platters inside the drive). Neato story, some girl walked by my desk and accidentally knocked it off the desk when she bumbed into my desk with her hip to go to the board. I came home, it wouldn't boot, it literally started hopping and jumping on the table connected to the computer, i ripped it open and was like "how the **** did 3 foot fall do that?".

Don't shake your baby hard and don't drop your baby.

[Nuke]

If it's a hard drive with moving parts, i'd remove it from the case before transport despite it being housed in a heavy duty case with rubber wraps. I wouldn't bother removing the hard drive if it was an ssd.

Modern day magnetic storage hard drives i wouldn't trust through serious bumps and scrapes simply because they still do use some relatively fragile parts. That's my take on it, while at the same time i have seen some hard drives take one hell of a beating and still be just fine for the average 5 year operational time. Better to be safer than sorry in the end.

i have an ide/sata enclosure just for that purpose. if im ever gonna be without my primary computer for any length of time, the largest hard drive (the one with all my files) goes into it. i then keep it with me until i get my comp back. i use the smaller/older hard drives for os and backup, and since im pretty much waiting for them to die so i can upgrade them, their expendable. i personally cant wait for ssds to get much cheaper. right now theyre not very economical.

Whereas a standard western digital or even a seagate 3.25" hard drives usually can't handle a 3 foot drop (and that is how i actually bent one of the platters inside the drive). Neato story, some girl walked by my desk and accidentally knocked it off the desk when she bumbed into my desk with her hip to go to the board. I came home, it wouldn't boot, it literally started hopping and jumping on the table connected to the computer, i ripped it open and was like "how the **** did 3 foot fall do that?".

ive said it once and i will say it again.

women are dirty, evil, whores!