More uses for leftover parts
 

You know those front-panel/USB plugs to make it easy to disconnect the front panel buttons and lights from the motherboard headers? I had a few laying around, as well as some old motherboards.

I unsoldered one of the 2-port USB headers from the board and soldered it to an extra header plug to give me two internal USB ports. :)

Here are a few examples. An extra SATA port? Internal WiFi? Or maybe a ReadyBoost drive?

Here is the link to the SATA adaptor I used. My BIOS finds it, found the optical drive connected to it, and booted a CD off it. Windows 7 required no drivers and I can hot-swap HDDs from it. Oh, and it's only $6 shipped. http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-2-0-SATA-Bri...item4cf6f73e94

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/at...1&d=1312811971

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/at...1&d=1312811976

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/at...1&d=1312811980

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/at...1&d=1312812692

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/at...1&d=1312812117

Actually that would work great for my Unraid server thst boots from a flash drive dticking out the back of my csse. It would be nice to put it inside.

ATP make all sorts of devices for embeded systems. http://www.atpinc.com/

Here's one of them.

http://www.techpowerup.com/120659/AT...ate_Drive.html