cleaning a case, don't use a vacume

My hard drive has been collecting dust for 2 years.
so is this a mistake in the making: putting my vacume cleaner hose on the back of my hard drive to suck them all out.

This seems very unprofessional and I'm scared that it could wreck it's inards.

is it ok, or is there a better way to do it.

This post has been edited by YoManRuLz on Nov 1 2009, 03:09 PM

Unless you have some sort of seriously weird/old? hard drive I doubt there's even somewhere for dust to get in.

in the back, there is a vent type thing that is very dusty

This post has been edited by YoManRuLz on Oct 30 2009, 07:24 PM

Are we talking about this:



or this:



Because the second one is not a hard drive, it's a case.

a hard drive + cd/dvd drive
whatever
same dif

D: D: D:

It's not the same AT ALL. Also there's a lot more to it than just a hard drive and a DVD drive.

Go to computer store, buy a can of compressed air.
Use that.

Also; not same diff. Different things need different methods of cleaning.

Oops, double post.

This post has been edited by Elixer on Oct 30 2009, 07:38 PM

I refer to it as a hard drive...
so compressed air will work?

but its not a hard drive.

But yeah it should work, it did for me atleast

You shouldn't, you should refer to it as what it actually is.

Compressed air works for cleaning computers. If I will stick one into my laptop to clean it, it'll work on a PC. Though you'll haveta take it apart (the case, I mean).

W-H-O C-A-R-E-S
ok, ok it's a case everyone A CASE
as of now I will refer to it as a case and no one will understand
(this rant was building up inside me pay no attention to it)
...
but ok, whatever thanks

This post has been edited by YoManRuLz on Oct 30 2009, 07:58 PM

well it does matter in this case, because dust can easily destroy a hard drive if it gets through the air filter; practically everything else in the computer is immune to dust unless it's covered in a blanket of it

but if it's the computer case, then yeah compressed air should do (or a cloth)

This post has been edited by Xgoff on Oct 30 2009, 08:38 PM

You are correct that a vacuum cleaner would be a bad idea (unless it's a special static-free vacuum but we can safely assume you don't have that). Sucking dust out of the back won't do anything anyway because if you have a lot of dust there, then you have a lot of dust everywhere inside the case.

fixed

I meant normal people, not computer nerds like us (no offence intended)

"this big thing that we call a computer"

"normal people call it a hard drive"

"nerds call it a case"

nobody except for the tragically uninformed (you) calls it a hard drive.
not even most "common" people.

they may not know to call it a "case," but they certainly don't call it a hard drive. they might just refer to it as "the computer" since most common people don't care to know what's inside.

if you are calling it a hard drive and telling other people to call it a hard drive, then you should stop immediately and apologize to anyone you may have misinformed.

that is all

yikes, I didn't think people would care that much

and I never told anyone to call it a hard drive, I just call it a hard drive.
(lock this topic please, It has an answer and this conversation is going crazy)

This post has been edited by YoManRuLz on Nov 1 2009, 03:07 PM

the answer is simple: you don't. It's a lot of trouble with absolutely no visible result.