Dear Ask-a-Nerd.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It might be some kind of Assassin Bug.

Fuck me!

I used to keep asassin bugs as pets.

That link is from the state just south of me. The one I saw didn't have wings, or they were folded carefully. It t'were fugly, I know that.

[Animavore]

Wow. It even has a cool name. Assassin bug. Why don't we have a cool name? Human is a very neutral sounding word. It doesn't stick out.

[Pappa]

It might be some kind of Assassin Bug.

Fuck me!

I used to keep asassin bugs as pets.

That link is from the state just south of me. The one I saw didn't have wings, or they were folded carefully. It t'were fugly, I know that.

I think all assassin bugs have wings that fold away. They are cool animals, watching them feed is nice. They jab their proboscis into their prey and slurp out the juices. Apparently it hurts a great deal if they jab you in the hand or something.

[Mr P]

Looks like a souped-up dead leaf mantis.

The head is too small for a mantis, as far as I know.

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HOLY CRAP!!!!! SELL THE HOUSE AND GET AS FAR AWAY FROM THAT THING AS YOU CAN!!


RUN, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE AND WHAT EVER YOU DO.... DON'T LOOK BEHIND YOU!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

But I just put six in my mom's bedroom. Can't leave until this plays out.

[Mr P]

But I just put six in my mom's bedroom. Can't leave until this plays out.

Only if you post a video of the proceedings

[Gawdzilla Sama]

But I just put six in my mom's bedroom. Can't leave until this plays out.

Only if you post a video of the proceedings

I haz camcorder!

[FBM]

Dear Nerds,

I have a 200GB/7200rpm/8M Samsung SATA 1.5Gbps hard drive sitting here. I haz no particular skillz or desire to build a whole system around it. Is there any way I could hook it up to my current system and use it as an external HDD?

Sincerely,


Idjit

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Dear Nerds,

I have a 200GB/7200rpm/8M Samsung SATA 1.5Gbps hard drive sitting here. I haz no particular skillz or desire to build a whole system around it. Is there any way I could hook it up to my current system and use it as an external HDD?

Sincerely,


Idjit

http://peripherals.about.com/od/removab ... intext.htm

[FBM]

Dear Nerds,

I have a 200GB/7200rpm/8M Samsung SATA 1.5Gbps hard drive sitting here. I haz no particular skillz or desire to build a whole system around it. Is there any way I could hook it up to my current system and use it as an external HDD?

Sincerely,


Idjit

http://peripherals.about.com/od/removab ... intext.htm

Ah. Yeah, I found that page earlier. Problem is that I've got a Samsung Sens G25 http://www.itechnews.net/2007/07/21/sam ... tebook-pc/, which is a mutant. It's made like a huge-mongous laptop, but it's only semi-portable, in the sense that it doesn't have a battery like a laptop. Is there any way to make the necessary connections w/out breaking into the case? I'm thinking not...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Dear Nerds,

I have a 200GB/7200rpm/8M Samsung SATA 1.5Gbps hard drive sitting here. I haz no particular skillz or desire to build a whole system around it. Is there any way I could hook it up to my current system and use it as an external HDD?

Sincerely,


Idjit

http://peripherals.about.com/od/removab ... intext.htm

Ah. Yeah, I found that page earlier. Problem is that I've got a Samsung Sens G25 http://www.itechnews.net/2007/07/21/sam ... tebook-pc/, which is a mutant. It's made like a huge-mongous laptop, but it's only semi-portable, in the sense that it doesn't have a battery like a laptop. Is there any way to make the necessary connections w/out breaking into the case? I'm thinking not...

Um, yes, very nice. Quite fucking nice. Sure you don't want to break into the case?

[FBM]

Um, yes, very nice. Quite fucking nice. Sure you don't want to break into the case?

I'd love to dive into that laptop.

But am I right in assuming there are no adapters that could make the external ports on this thing serve to hook up the drive?

[Calilasseia]

Temporary derail ...

Having found out about the bug photos purely by accident, this creature (which someone else has identified as Arilus cristatus is known as the Wheel Bug, courtesy of that strange thoracic protrusion which resembles a gear wheel. That bug is begging for a Photoshop steampunk makeover.

Now, back to our scheduled thread.

As to the internal hard drive to external hard drive conversion, it would require a lot of work. I don't know about SATA hard drives, but I suspect that with regard to power input, internal drives intended to live inside a desktop PC case have the same power connector as the older PATA drives (the ones that used to be called IDE or EIDE in the days before SATA existed). The power connectors for hard drives and CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives have 4 wires attached to them, and each wire carries a different voltage. Which means you'd have to replicate that power supply to the drive, and the only way I know of doing that is to buy yourself a full-blown PC power supply unit and plug it into that. Then, you have all the fun of finding a way of interfacing the data connector to the outside world in such a way as to enable you to plug it into a USB port. Now, if SATA ports are compatible with USB ports signal wise, then this might not be a problem, but if they're not, you're looking at designing some fairly intricate electronics to provide the interfacing. Possibly involving putting together your own circuit board (and designing the thing from scratch using appropriate software), interfacing a brace of interesting ICs together to provide the signal conversion, and then testing the damn thing to make sure it doesn't blow up on you, preferably using a drive that you don't intend to use long term. Then, you've got to parcel the whole thing into a box, and provide it with an external power cable to run the PSU. If the drive is a fast spinning one, you might consider sticking a big fan on top of it to keep it cool, and building some nice ventilation slots into the box the whole setup will live in.

Frankly, it's so much work that I'd wait until you find yourself needing a second PC to put it in, and save it for that.

[FedUpWithFaith]

Looks like a souped-up dead leaf mantis.

The head is too small for a mantis, as far as I know.

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Have your seen/read The Mist? They look like they could be the baby version of the bugs in that story. Collect a few and see if they grow and kill you.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Temporary derail ...

Having found out about the bug photos purely by accident, this creature (which someone else has identified as Arilus cristatus is known as the Wheel Bug, courtesy of that strange thoracic protrusion which resembles a gear wheel. That bug is begging for a Photoshop steampunk makeover.

Now, back to our scheduled thread.

As to the internal hard drive to external hard drive conversion, it would require a lot of work. I don't know about SATA hard drives, but I suspect that with regard to power input, internal drives intended to live inside a desktop PC case have the same power connector as the older PATA drives (the ones that used to be called IDE or EIDE in the days before SATA existed). The power connectors for hard drives and CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives have 4 wires attached to them, and each wire carries a different voltage. Which means you'd have to replicate that power supply to the drive, and the only way I know of doing that is to buy yourself a full-blown PC power supply unit and plug it into that. Then, you have all the fun of finding a way of interfacing the data connector to the outside world in such a way as to enable you to plug it into a USB port. Now, if SATA ports are compatible with USB ports signal wise, then this might not be a problem, but if they're not, you're looking at designing some fairly intricate electronics to provide the interfacing. Possibly involving putting together your own circuit board (and designing the thing from scratch using appropriate software), interfacing a brace of interesting ICs together to provide the signal conversion, and then testing the damn thing to make sure it doesn't blow up on you, preferably using a drive that you don't intend to use long term. Then, you've got to parcel the whole thing into a box, and provide it with an external power cable to run the PSU. If the drive is a fast spinning one, you might consider sticking a big fan on top of it to keep it cool, and building some nice ventilation slots into the box the whole setup will live in.

Frankly, it's so much work that I'd wait until you find yourself needing a second PC to put it in, and save it for that.

Sounds like an awful lot of work to me when you could just buy something like this...

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149273