Project Hummer PC UPdate (New article in Micro Computer in China)

Now about that water pump... are you gonna mount u/s down in the top of the cargo area of the hummer with a resivour... or is that gonna be a q/d trailer???

 

That should be pretty bad for them. I know the max some seagate drives can sustain is 350g of acceleration. It was labeled that "Warenty void if drive is subject to force in excess of 350Gs."
But a continuous bumping around would be bad. What was that quantity called. Like having a pencil sit on the palm of your hand for 5 days compaund to having a logging truck run over your hand for a total period of 2 seconds? Obviously your hand would be squished from the tow truck. But the heads on the hdd would get bumped around so much and weaconed, they would lose their track on the hdd platter. But with the 350G, they would just spring back into place.

wow.. was I baboling there? so much text for something fairly simple. Oh well.

Hey, when you have it all done, you should see what kind of towing capacity it has. Riding it to a LAN party would be kinda funny.

About the water pump. You could save some space by using a closed system. Just use a T connector to fill/bleed the system.

And I should say again how much of an awesome mod this is.

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OK, well, thanks anyways Malfeo. hmmm... would you be willing to share the progy with me? Would it be ok with your buddy if you did? or how about the source?
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Well, if he rigs up some suspension, and only uses it on flat surfaces (like floors of LAN events, etc), then he would be fine. If this guy implements towable drives, then I assume he won't be racing round a car park with them....

You gotta love the way that the Seagates say that the warrenty aint void unless we go over 350G's. Does that mean I can drop it out the window?

 

When I said tow the hard drives, I did not mean to tow them while the computer was on. To tow the hard drives meant the computer would be off. Since the heads auto park when powered off, it can sustain mild bumps.

 

omg , thats sweet

 

sweet

 

We demand an update!

 

I know....

 

Nope,


We want...A SHRUBBERY!!!

 

i want a A SHRUBBERY and a update

 

Yes a SHURBBERY and an update would be nice.
and if you don't have time to do more work on it and update, then you'll just have to make time. UNDERSTOOD????

 

just now seeing this mod:

Bravo, mate.

 

I second that

 

350 G's ?!?!? ermmm that doesn't sound right. 1 G = the amount of force gravity applies to a static object. 2 G is obviously twice that much. Pilots black out between 7-10 G's. Wings start to fall off airplanes at 12.... You get the picture.

 

Yes, I know what a G is. And I thought the exact same thing. My boss and I had a small discussion about it too. and also verified there was NO sine of a decimal point anywhere on that number.
But thats EXACTLY what it said on the label. If I still had the drive here at work, I would post a pic to prove it (not to be arogant or anything.)

Taking apart other drives and seeing how delicate they are makes it pretty hard to beleive that the drive could sustain 350Gs

I beleive the drive was a 15gig. It was in an old hp machine. celly 533 I think

 

I'll second that. I studied the lables on my Barracude IV and Barracuda V for some time, searching for that lucraticve decimal place. And there are none! Will post a pic as soon as I get a digital camera! Drive is right next to me cause I can't be bothered to finish this case.

 

w00t! I'm not crazy
Well, not all of the time

 

lol just most of the time

 

ill 3rd that 350g's warrenty void malarky!
when i first read that i larfed so hard.
but it comes to light its not acceleration that would be the problem evident in this case, it would rather be the opposite. DECELLERATION.
If you were to drop the hard drive, it would go from the speed it falls to 0mph when it hits the floor, a very large gain in G's.
Now im no physician but hopefulyl some really smart/nerdy guy will enlight us with some incredible complicated math!
Hell im only 15! i havnt even been taught this shizm!
anywho, totally babled on.
Bakc to topic.

Great ride mate! b0y would i l0ve a RC as big as yours!
I have all the cars boats planes etc and i thought i had it all. but a 1/6th car :| christ that thing blew my socks off!
it really is something your doing and i know it will look the part! its a hummer for petes sake!
Keep up the good work and an update would be rather nice

 

Well, you're right. I could work out the G's as it hits the floor from certain heights, but i'm not that sad...(OK, i'll have a go...)


Anyway, back on topic.....hows the Hummer going? Is it having a new paint job? Metallic blue would be nice.