After all my hard work i would like to show of my first REAL mod!!!!! i think it good. i bonbo th the handle and some small dents. im goin to put Plexi behind it and light it with red LEDs hooked up to the hard drive activity.
Have you had a look at Mektu's HDD LED mod? Pretty cool fading effect on HDD activity, should look great behind your acrylic cutout. I built one of these, it's a really simple circuit and Mektu's forum has great help for electronic noobs with dumb questions.