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Cobalt Qube
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Cobalt Qube: Pre Surgery |
Cobalt Qube: Rear Panel |
Cobalt Qube: Case Removed |
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This Cobalt Qube ran the Newted
Community site for several years
before the hard drive finally
died...
Uploaded on Nov 22, 2008 |
This is the back panel of the
Qube. The first step is to
remove the four screws around
the plastic...
Uploaded on Nov 22, 2008 |
This is the Qube with the blue
plastic housing removed. To
access the interior of the
server, the...
Uploaded on Nov 22, 2008 |
Cobalt Qube: Base Removal |
Cobalt Qube: Inner Case Removal |
Cobalt Qube: Innards |
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Before being able to remove the
interior metal casing, the
plastic base must come off the
housing....
Uploaded on Nov 22, 2008 |
The interior case is removed by
removed another two screws
holding it to the main metal
case. Pull...
Uploaded on Nov 22, 2008 |
With the interior metal case
removed, you now have access to
the motherboard, the
daughterboard...
Uploaded on Nov 22, 2008 |
Cobalt Qube: Drive Mounting Screws |
Cobalt Qube: Drive Extracted |
Scratchin’ My Head |
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Reach into the case and gently
pull the ribbon and power
connectors from the motherboard.
Holding...
Uploaded on Nov 22, 2008 |
Voilà. One decrepit hard drive,
ready for immediate bubble
wrappage and shipment to the
data...
Uploaded on Nov 22, 2008 |
This is definitely not what you
want to see when the data
recovery guys open up your hard
drive.
I...
Uploaded on Jan 24, 2009 |