All it takes is 15' of velcro

First off, let's just remember this is a judgement free zone. This week, I had another hard drive failure. Brings my life total to four (hard drive) failures. Non-HD failures are strictly for my therapist Ron. Although, I imagine I should probably show him a picture of this OCD creation.

This is really the culmination of collecting computer parts since 2003. Those HD failures were more like HD corruptions--once I took them out of whatever computer they failed on and wiped them clean, they still worked. But I usually had a newer, bigger HD installed.

So yeah, six HDs, four ipods, two camera chargers, two card readers, two powered USB hubs, one old laptop, and one garmin watch. The back of that board is mess of cables. The hanger on top is so that it can hang in my closet--no other space.

But I am quite proud of my little hack. The laptop was basically broken, so I wiped it and installed Linux. The keyboard is broken so there is only input via the one working USB port. So to get around that, I disabled the 'close on shutting lid' setting and installed a remote desktop control app. The goal is to just stick it in the closet and control it via my mac.

All the other HDs are networked together to show up as a giant network attached storage thing via my wireless network. when I do need to sync, i just plug my laptop into one USB cable and it should sync all the ipods, watches, and cards.