Seagate External HD: Thin Silver Strip Inside Case; What For please ?

[rgsrose]

Hello,

I popped the case off of a Seagate external HD.

Inside there is a thin metallic silvery strip running along one of the edges inside of the case. 6" long.

Has a black and red wire going from it into the drive PC board.
And a yellow and black wire connecting both ends of this strip.

Any idea what this strip is, or is for ?
The label on the HD says: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750 GB
P/N 9BX156-568

Thanks,
Bob

 

[Flasherly]

Hello,

I popped the case off of a Seagate external HD.

Inside there is a thin metallic silvery strip running along one of the edges inside of the case. 6" long.

Has a black and red wire going from it into the drive PC board.
And a yellow and black wire connecting both ends of this strip.

Any idea what this strip is, or is for ?
The label on the HD says: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750 GB
P/N 9BX156-568

Thanks,
Bob

probably ground source to keep noise off the board

 

[Paul]

Hello,

I popped the case off of a Seagate external HD.

Inside there is a thin metallic silvery strip running along one of the edges inside of the case. 6" long.

Has a black and red wire going from it into the drive PC board.
And a yellow and black wire connecting both ends of this strip.

Any idea what this strip is, or is for ?
The label on the HD says: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750 GB
P/N 9BX156-568

Thanks,
Bob

Is that the model number on the enclosure itself ?

How about giving us the product information
for the enclosure itself, as your metallic
strip is part of that ?

What I'll be doing to start, is comparing
the feature set listed in the specification
section for the product, to see how it could
possibly relate to a strip with wires.

Paul

 

[Franc Zabkar]

I popped the case off of a Seagate external HD.

Inside there is a thin metallic silvery strip running along one of the edges inside of the case. 6" long.

Has a black and red wire going from it into the drive PC board.
And a yellow and black wire connecting both ends of this strip.

Can you post a photo?

- Franc Zabkar

 

[Charlie Hoffpauir]

Hello,

I popped the case off of a Seagate external HD.

Inside there is a thin metallic silvery strip running along one of the edges inside of the case. 6" long.

Has a black and red wire going from it into the drive PC board.
And a yellow and black wire connecting both ends of this strip.

Any idea what this strip is, or is for ?
The label on the HD says: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750 GB
P/N 9BX156-568

Thanks,
Bob

Is this one of the old FreeAgent drives? Is this simply the "light"
strip? If so, it's only an indicator, the drive works fine without it.

 

[hp]

probably ground source to keep noise off the board

No, no, no, that's the wireless antenna needed to be in Homeland
Security compliance

 

[Flasherly]

No, no, no, that's the wireless antenna needed to be in Homeland
Security compliance

Hope they wouldn't interfere w/ a ham 2meter and 70cm band I bought
unlicensed. They'll protectively band together to catch me, yes?

 

[David]

At Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:02:15 -0800, Flasherly rearranged some electrons to
write:

Hope they wouldn't interfere w/ a ham 2meter and 70cm band I bought
unlicensed. They'll protectively band together to catch me, yes?

As long as you don't transmit. You don't need a license to own.

 

[Flasherly]

As long as you don't transmit. You don't need a license to own.

'Duh'...or as a rambunctious, bottom-barrel sales-site thread assumed
spontaneous combustion over recent Chinese government sponsorship for
undercutting a minimum $200 Japanese handheld market for hams with $50
Chinese counterparts. . .'piss off.' Though last I saw, government,
here anyway, had moved in part its transmission systems into trunked
systems unavailable to ham receivers. Which possibly leaves the two
most populous bands, 2M and 70CM, to predominately amateurs. Besides,
last time I got on a CB to chat with "Rosie" over an agreement to meet
at a local restaurant for coffee, she arrived as a 300lb. tattooed
woman whom had brought a snake-handling preacher by way of
afterthought.

-
I danced with a gal with a hole in her stockin',
And her heel kept a-knockin', and her toes kept a-rockin'
And we danced by the light of the moon.
-Buffalo Gals