RS7000 Internal Hard Drive

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

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For a long time, I have used the Yamaha rs7000 to make a lot of my music and to play live. One big problem though, is that it doesn’t have enough storage capacity. You can purchase a hard drive, but it’s big and clunky and pain to carry around with you. A while ago I decided to simply put it inside the rs7000 case. A few years have passed and I’ve never had a problem. Read below for more pictures of various stages in the process of modding the gear. It should also be possible run the hard drive off of the internal power supply instead of putting another one inside the case, but I haven’t found the right adapters yet to do so.

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