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How to Tweak a old hard drive into a flash memory hard drive

May 13, 2009 07:28 PM

Computer hardware components inside a hard drive.

MAKE and Kipkay brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. Make Magazine celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.

In this video tutorial episode of Weekend Projects with Kipkay, you'll learn how to tweak a old hard drive into a flash memory hard drive. You can easily take an old outdated hard drive and teach it new secret tricks by increasing it's capacity and speed. Four small flash drives will be needed for this project, among other things.

Check out the original article in MAKE, Volume 17, or check out the "gmgfarrand" original Instructable.

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