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[출처] Gizmodo

A couple of months ago I ran out of disk space on my MacBook and decided to upgrade it's hard disk to a larger one. Which was nice and easy, but left me with a spare 80GB drive with no purpose in life.
A few weeks later I accidentally placed my WD Passport external drive on top of my Moleskine notebook and, what do you know, they were pretty much the same size. That got me thinking.
After some extensive research (well, I just googled for 2.5" sata enclosure) I found all I needed: an external enclosure for laptop SATA drives that would not need a power supply and with the smallest possible circuitry. There are many brands and models, but this one from Cool Drives was just perfect, and at under $25 it was cheap enough I didn't have to ask my wife for budgetary allowances.
First, I opened the enclosure and removed the logic board. It is small,
as you can see in the photos. Then I attached it to the drive and made
sure the complete assembly still fit inside a Moleskine. It did. It was
time to start gutting the notebook.
I selected the Moleskine Sketchbook
($12 at a nearby art supplies store) because it had the thickest pages
(better structural support) and the least number of pages (less work
glueing.)
After tracing the outline of the drive assembly, it was time to start
cutting out the pages using a very sharp swiss knife. Any cutting
instrument will do just fine, as long as it is very, very sharp. (Try
to avoid cutting your fingers; blood stains might ruin the finish of
the project. On the other hand, it might look good, so I'll leave it up
to you.)
I would press the knife hard and go through four or five pages, but then I had to cut the corners and take out the inside of the pages one by one. It took me about 30 minutes to cut them all out, except for a couple of pages on both ends. To make sure I wouldn't cut too far, I used the aluminum cover from the discarded enclosure as a cutting board.
The "core" of the pages can actually be recycled to build yourself your own Hipster PDA, so nothing goes to waste. Well, nothing except the aluminum and plastic from the external enclosure, but that doesn't hurt the environment, does it?
Somehow I got lucky and the drive assembly fit just right without needing any touchups. Now it was time to glue the pages using your plain old regular glue stick. Again, one by one.
I glued the back half until it reached the height of the USB port,
and then I glued the front half. Afterwards I realized there was no
particular reason to stop at that level and that any other combination
would have worked, but that's what I did.
A couple of markings and small cuts later, I had created the openings for the USB port and the activity light.
The photo shows them as two separate holes, but I ended up combining them because the glue was not holding up the pieces of paper in the middle. I guess using stronger glue, or rather, waiting for it to actually dry, would have helped, but I was almost done and couldn't wait.
With the drive inside and the pages glued it was time to close it and see it in its final form. The result was almost perfect. There is a very small gap where the two halves meet, and while I could have cut a couple of extra pages on both ends to make it fit, I'd had it with the cutting and glueing. And besides, it's good for allowing some airflow around the drive.
Of course, it needed the right icon as its desktop avatar. This one from Pixel Press Icons was just perfect.
So there you have it: The Geekster Moleskine.
Why? Because regular enclosures are boring. Because Moleskine notebooks are great looking. And of course, the usual answer: why not?
Won't it get too hot? Probably. I did no research at all, but I'm pretty certain paper is not as good thermal conductor as aluminum. But I really don't care. I don't plan to run Mac OS out of the drive, or to use it continuously for long periods of time. And you can always open the notebook and expose the drive.
What will you use the extra blank pages for? Why, writting down my passwords, of course!