The Coolest SSD Mod Ever!
Posted 10/03/08 at 04:15:39 PM | by Gordon Mah Ung
SSD’s are hot, but how do you mount your new 2.5-inch solid state drive in a 3.5-inch bay without it looking ghettolicious?
The answer: Use a VelociRaptor’s extruded aluminum shell with Intel’s wicked fast SSD. The result is one a combination even better than peanut butter and chocolate if we may so say our selves.
Does it make sense to do this with a live VelociRaptor? Probably not, but we just happened to have a dead unit and rather than toss it in the garbage, we shucked out the dead drive by removing the four Torqx screws and mounted the Intel X25-M in its place. You can actually do this with a live VelociRaptor but you’ll immediately void the warranty on the drive. Does an SSD need all that aluminum to keep it cool? The answer is no, but it sure looks cool, right?
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Where do you get the enclosure without the drive?
Submitted by yr on Sun, 2008-10-26 07:44
Can you buy it by itself, or do you have to buy a velociraptor and remove the drive
(which will void the drive's warranty!)?
Submitted by dreadmonkey on Mon, 2008-10-20 08:32
That is a sleek mod, to bad a Velociraptor had to die for the cool looking mod. I have tested a X25-E (32GB) and a X18-M (80GB) in my Compal JFL92S+. The drives gave off little to no heat in testing in a notebook or in a desktop system. So the mod is just for pretty and it is pretty.
dreadmonkey
Submitted by Captain on Sat, 2008-10-04 12:38
If you stuck a VelociRaptor in a ps3, the power problem shouldnt matter cause theres no battery, tho the heat might. i wonder if the ps3 would load faster as well...
Submitted by gordonung on Sat, 2008-10-04 10:15
Sorry. I believe VelociRaptors require 12 Volts to spin up the motors and no notebooks currently put out 12 volts to the SATA drives.
2.5" VR
Submitted by Caboose on Sat, 2008-10-04 08:48
If you were to remove a live VelociRaptor from it's shell, could you then plop it into a laptop, or would the heat be too much?
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
Submitted by CTskifreak on Sat, 2008-10-04 09:57
The heat might be the problem, but think about the speed that it's running at - 10K RPM. That would drain your battery out a lot quicker than the 5400 or the 7200 RPM drives.
Submitted by streetking on Sun, 2008-10-05 23:59
The power requirements of the velociraptor would prevent your laptop from even booting up. What would be cool is if WD started selling the heatsinks by themselves! Then people who already have SSD's can get them.
Submitted by CTskifreak on Fri, 2008-10-03 15:05
I think WD should licence this out. It's not much of a mod but a smart idea. Who wants ugly 2.5 inch drives in those 3.5 inch slots. I say license it out to the SSD companies. Make sense.
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