Then turn the drive into a speaker... Hard Disk Speakers: http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/hdspeakers/hdspeakers.htm :rofl:
:rofl: afroman does it again... that has got to be what is in the nightmares of hard drive engineers... three open platters on some kids floor for entertainment...
(sorry for bringing up old posts but, ) I just tried this at work with an old 500mb drive and a pair of speakers. I took the cord that goes to the left speaker and hooked up some wires to it, and hooked it up to the HD. I got sound out of the platter, but not the head. Also, you might want to be careful when trying (if you do), cause we kinda blew up a chip in the amplifier! Ooops.. oh well, they were almost dead anyways.
I always wondered if that would work. So how was the sound quality? was afrotech just playing a recording in the background?
Well seeing we were using computer speakers, and only the left channel, and it wasn't like we soldered anything and stuff like that... we could barely hear it before we blew the chip (which we are still baffeled on how that happened). However, I think it might have some potential if you hook up a good amp like he did. I just would say to use a high watt amp.
I just did this with my old 2 gig drive...I had no amp so it was pretty quiet. As far as the sound quality goes...it's pretty scratchy and vibrates a lot. The sound seems to improve when you spin the platter manually with your hand. Anyways, it does work!
I did that with an old 500mb drive, it worked perfectly. i found that if i hooked up just the arm, it as ok, but if the platter was hooked up aswell it was better. However, when the molex was plugged in the back and the plate span at full speed it made a lot of difference, because the arm started flying above the plate and therefore had less resistance to the vibration.
