Inside a LaCie PocketDrive...
As usual, I cannot be responsible for any damage to
your machines when you will experiment the following
tutorial.
Here, no problem: just to undertsand how it is built :-)
1)
I love this rubber look, don't you ? :-)
2)
Opening it from its rearside offers an easier way to
remove the rubber coat: see the little cuttings out pointed
by the yellow arrows
In the foreground of the image above, a little
specialized tool to remove electronic chips from a board:
usefull when you have to remove coats wrapping a box!
3)
The rubber coat is partially removed: we start working
from the connectors side (yellow arrow)
Blue arrows shows the two stickers which maintain the
rubber coat in place.
4)
Yellow arrows from left to right:
1) power connector (optional)
2) USB port
3) 1st Firewire port
4) 2nd Firewire port
Blue arrows from left to right
1) screw which clamps the hard disk onto the
plate
2) the hard disk itself
5)
Les vis de fixation (flèches jaunes) sont à
tête hexagonale, et munies d'un "têton" en leur
centre (flèches bleues). Ces derniers permettant de
maintenir la plaque et le disque dans de petits trous du U
métallique.
6)
Yellow arrows point to hexagonal screws with a little
breast on their middle (blue arrows).
The latter will maintain both the plate and the hard disk
into small U-shaped steel holes.
7)
All parts dissambled: nothing special.
8)
Of course, all the above instructions in reverse order to
rebuilt the PocketDrive!
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