USB hub storage unit in floppies!

Have you all wish to have one portal storage unit which is very light, has atleast 8 GB storage, you don't need to care if falls down, you can have it everywhere and you can carry actually all the OS with some Office applications and all these applications running from just some UBS sticks? If the answer is yes then folllow me in this instructable and you will make it to have it.

So the idea is to carry some GB's with you every where you move and just plug it toa any available computer in Internet cafe, in restaurant, in a travel ride, and more. You may ask why trying have something like special now where the prices of External Disks are falling down and you can carry some TerraBytes just for what? 100$. OK but these TB units have some problems. They cost far more than my unit, you must care them if fall or if the power fall etc. My Unit offers: Stability, low price, less care, multible OS booting, portability, not external AC power needed, less space.

OK we agreed now let's go to build it.

It tooks some time to find out a case to carry it. And when my wife gaves me her floopy disk to format it my then i find out the solution. Its ecological accepted and you can reuse our bunches of old floppies.

Step 1 Preparing the floppies

We take 2 well conditioned floppies. I recommend to use 2 different colours of floppies lets say one red and one yellow.
we choose which one goes up and which is going down.
We try with a flat screedriver to open the case of each floppy to remove the magnetic disk of inside them. try to pull them out with out to open it so much to prevent the damage of the mettalic part and loose of the small spring in the door of the floppy. Why we do this? Because we will use a big screew to bind the all unit and we dont need any magnetic contact to any contact with the hub's circuit. But because we need preserve the floppy we do the following step which is:

Comments

[Berserk87]

would be awesome if you could jbod all the flash drives connected to the hub.

[agis68]

But i have it like ths way.

[Berserk87]

your way, you plug it in and 4 different floppys would load off the usb hub. what im saying is you put 4 usb flash drives in, and they all read as a single flash drive on the pc.

[agis68]

yeap.....thats the purpose....

[JakeTobak]

Pretty cool, would love to see some better pics some day. Great job with MSPaint btw.

[agis68]

If you want the BMP pictures now are available

[agis68]

hmmm ok but i don't change device. I love my Wi200 Sony Erricson.:)

[nnygamer]

I had taken apart one of those type hubs to use in a small book, I found later that I should have glued down the cable so there was no stress on the circuit board/wire connection. After a while it broke off and I had to trash the board.

[agis68]

Woops! its my mistake. I have to correct it. Yes my friend i put in place the bottom part as support NOT the upper cover.... THNX. The error is typo.