Cannon CS100 Connect Station Teardown



Many products are designed after lots of Research and development. But unfortunately many fails in the market. Cannon CS100 Connect station is such product.

Its a small computer with sufficient hardware intefaces and 1TB harddrive.
I got this brand new box for just Rs.1999/- (29USD). I baught it for teardown purpose. anyway the 1TB harddrive sitting inside will cost me  Rs.3000 plus.

How to open

There are only 4 screws holding the bottom cover to the top.
I used T10 bit of my screw driver
Once all the 4 screws are removed, pull the bottom cover from the front sides. Remember that there is a notch at the back which may break if we try to pull from the back side.

Inside view



Removed the harddirve carfully. As you can see in the photo, there are 4 screws at the top and 4 more bigger ones from the sides. All are regular star screws.

Attaching the disk to computer

The Drive is provided with SATA interface. Attaching to home computer is very straight forward as plugging the power supply cable and SATA cable. attached it to my home desktop computer as shown below

Checking the harddrive

got into root shell of my linux pc and issued fdisk as shown below.
my new drive is /dev/sdc
# fdisk -l /dev/sdc
Disk /dev/sdc: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device     Boot    Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1             63    1953188    1953126 953.7M 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2        1953189    2453189     500001 244.1M 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc3        2453190    2703190     250001 122.1M 83 Linux
/dev/sdc4        2703191 1953525167 1950821977 930.2G  5 Extended
/dev/sdc5        2703254   10515754    7812501   3.7G 83 Linux
/dev/sdc6       10515818   18328318    7812501   3.7G 83 Linux
/dev/sdc7       18328382   33953382   15625001   7.5G 83 Linux
/dev/sdc8       33953446 1953525167 1919571722 915.3G 83 Linux

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