Re: upgrading expansion VST bay drives

2002-10-30 Thread Hal 

On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 05:47 AM, Joe Arcuri wrote:

> On 10/29/02 8:51 PM Hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Has anyone had any experience opening up the VST expansion bay hard
>> drives (pismo/lombard version in particular) and installing a larger
>> hard drive?
>
> Hi Hal,
> It's a fairly simple procedure to do. There are a handful of screws 
> that
> yo'll ned to remove to open the case, once it's open you have easy 
> access
> to the drive to swap out as you wish. I had documented the procedure 
> when
> I sold a case, let me know if you need them and I can send the pictures
> to you.
> Joe
>
Joe,
Thanks for the reply. I was looking at buying a whole drive unit and 
opening it up to swap the mechanism. I found one really cheap. Could 
you email me the details?

thanks,
-Hal


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Re: upgrading expansion VST bay drives

2002-10-30 Thread Joe Arcuri 
On 10/29/02 8:51 PM Hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Has anyone had any experience opening up the VST expansion bay hard 
>drives (pismo/lombard version in particular) and installing a larger 
>hard drive?

Hi Hal,
It's a fairly simple procedure to do. There are a handful of screws that 
yo'll ned to remove to open the case, once it's open you have easy access 
to the drive to swap out as you wish. I had documented the procedure when 
I sold a case, let me know if you need them and I can send the pictures 
to you.
Joe

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Re: upgrading expansion VST bay drives

2002-10-30 Thread Andrew Main 
Hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Has anyone had any experience opening up the VST expansion bay hard
>drives (pismo/lombard version in particular) and installing a larger
>hard drive?

Yes, but I "cheated": I got a VST case from a guy who had already 
opened it up, very tidily, and provided full instructions. A year or 
so ago when a VST Exp Bay HD went thru my hands (with a PowerBook I 
was working on) I noted that it didn't seem to be easily openable; I 
emailed VST/SmartDisk about it, and was told that they "didn't 
support" user upgrades.

Then a few months ago SmartDisk had a big closeout sale on their VST 
Exp Bay stuff; I was too late to get anything useful, but soon 
noticed a lot of them appearing on eBay, in particular from one 
"dankephoto," who'd apparently bought up a lot of VST Exp Bay HDs, 
taken them apart, and was selling the cases and HDs separately for a 
tidy profit.

Well, I can't argue with such an entrepreneurial spirit, and the guy 
was very up-front with description/explanation and offered plenty of 
clear photos. After being outbid on one or two, I went ahead and 
Bought It Now, figuring I was willing to pay a premium for having the 
job made easy for me. Which it was; I now have a 20GB Travelstar in 
it.

I thought he'd have sold all his stock by now, but recently noticed 
he has another for sale:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2064939681
Check out his excellent assembly instruction page at:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dankephoto/ebay/sdbay/
(Go to this page in iCab and you can save it to disk complete to open 
any time you need it.)

If you have your own case and want to open it up, this should supply 
all the info you need. Note in particular that the four screws that 
attach the drive to the case are hidden by the vinyl cover on the 
bottom of the case; dankephoto did a nice job of uncovering the screw 
heads with little circular cutouts. My only caveat: some of the case 
screws screw into plastic, so can easily be stripped; be careful with 
them, and don't plan on opening the case too many times, it's 
obviously not designed for it.

Andrew Main

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upgrading expansion VST bay drives

2002-10-29 Thread Hal 
Has anyone had any experience opening up the VST expansion bay hard 
drives (pismo/lombard version in particular) and installing a larger 
hard drive?

Any info is appreciated.

-Hal


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