This is a project I’ve been working on for the past quarter for my EE47 class. I didn’t want to make just a personal music player, but instead a personal music performance - and this is the more-or-less first prototype of that. It could be described as a “virtual turntable”: you load songs into it, and then you can play them back as if they were on a record. You can slow down or speed up the record, or grab it and scratch it.
Filed under: Reviews fyhuang @ December 29, 2008 6:24 pm
It doesn’t work.
Okay, that’s a little bit unfair; it’s probably more accurate to say that it doesn’t work as expected. The Tuniq Sanctum hard drive enclosure is a 5.25” bay device that holds a 3.5” (or smaller, I suppose) hard drive, and purportedly not only reduces the noise output of the drive but also helps to keep it cool. This device, unfortunately, excels at one aspect of its claimed purpose and fails at the other. While it does indeed keep noise levels down very acceptably, the Tuniq Sanctum enclosure, due to the lack of airflow inside the device, fails to cool the hard drive adequately. In fact, leaving the hard drive inside the enclosure will probably decrease the hard drive’s lifetime due to the 60+ degrees Celsius temperatures sometimes experienced inside the device.
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