iBook G4 as HDDs enclosure

[garrize]

Hi,

I have an old iBook G4 12" that I just don't want to throw away or sell. Do you think I could turn it into a HDDs enclosure?
I'd like to put several 1TB or 2TB disks in it and maybe add a Thunderbolt or FW800 connection to plug them to my iMac.

Anyone has any tips or ideas on how I could do that?

Thanks for your help everyone.

 

[Intell]

If you want to do that, you'd have to remove the iBook's logicboard and most of the internal framework.

 

[garrize]

Yes i'm well aware of that.

I just thought it'd look nice and that it was a good way of having several HHDs in the same place without too many wires.

 

[njaremka]

sounds like a very interesting project.

rip all the guts out, and mount a bunch of hard drives in there. would make for a cool looking network server.

 

[stroked]

What you are wanting to do, is considered sacrilege, by many here. You could at least get an old dead dual USB iBook G3. It would look the same.

 

[Melbourne Park]

What you are wanting to do, is considered sacrilege, by many here. You could at least get an old dead dual USB iBook G3. It would look the same.

Now that is sacrilege! the G4 is the Titanium, man!!!

 

[tom vilsack]

What you are wanting to do, is considered sacrilege, by many here. You could at least get an old dead dual USB iBook G3. It would look the same.

errrrrr...them fighting words!