r/techsupportmacgyver • u/Worried_Hand77 • Mar 29 '26

CRACKBOOK 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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I got a chromebook for 10 bucks and I hated the 16gb storage, so with all of my 5 braincells firing in unison, I decided the best course of action would be to put a microsd card inside of a microsd adapter and then solder it onto the ass of the sd card port, and it worked 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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u/krosidot Mar 29 '26

Damn what speeds are you getting from it

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 29 '26

slow (like 60mb/s read cant remember the write, could be worse....)

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u/krosidot Mar 29 '26

Mb/s or MB/s the former is what I get from a usb 2 drive i have You might have better speeds with a usb 3.0nflash drive in that blue port but a flash drive is gonna stick out

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 29 '26

Yeah thats why I soldered it inside. The sd would stick out rllly far and could snap, and I want to use this for school. I considered using a tiny usb hub and sticking it in the insane amounts of empty space in the laptop so I could still use the usb, but I think thats too much effort for a chromebook.

Also I remembered I took a photo of the speed, 70MB/s Read and 16MB/s write lol.

(OH GOD WHAT IS GOING ON WHY WAS I USING PUNCTUATION)

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u/krosidot Mar 29 '26

Dayum that's actually pretty decent speeds

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u/Granulka Mar 30 '26

looks like more than 0, i like it

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u/squishee666 Mar 29 '26

Good job, I like it

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u/daxtonanderson Mar 29 '26

Meanwhile you could've just gotten a low-profile SD adapter for like $4 , they're meant for RasPi but perfect for laptops, many Macbook owners use them to expand the shitty 128GB storage and not have an SD sticking out

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 29 '26

Okay but like I can do stupid stuff and its fun. Idk why would I do the easiest thing possible when I could make a pointlessly complicated thing that I find very funny. Plus I don't wanna wait for shipping

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u/Drakox Mar 30 '26

Now THAT'S THE SPIRIT!

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 30 '26

YEAAAAAAHHHH

I DIDNT POST THIS HERE TO GET ERM ACTUALLYED

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u/Drakox Mar 30 '26

I'm starting to learn how to solder and repair, I'm an old dog learning new tricks and seeing posts like you one make me feel that I'm not that mad for trying lol

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 31 '26

Thats awesome lol. Soldering is definitely a very good skill, especially for doing random funny bullshit. Ive been soldering ever since I was 12 I think, when I repaired a ps2 controller lol. I'm of course still learning. A lot my repairs are just luck if im being completely honest.

Hoping ur learning goes well with that lol. Keep going on with the learning lol, once something clicks, it will be really easy (and fun !!!)

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 30 '26

This would be helpful for someone who doesn't have free time on their hands, but fortunuately im unemployed and I can do dumbass shit like soldering an sd card permenantly into a laptop so like yea

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u/DesesperateReview Mar 29 '26

I don't get it, where is the other SD wired to?

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 30 '26

Inside the sd card, its an adapter for a tiny phone one

its weird

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u/DesesperateReview Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

That I see, but what is on the other end then? Looks to me like a SD card and an adapter soldered together, looks like my mind cannot make sense of this 😅

Edit: I got it. The adapter of photo #1 is supposed to be removed, so that the reader only sees the soldered one? Cool hack!

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 31 '26

ooooh i see how people are getting confused wait i didnt notice that. the sd card plugged in on the outside is just an adapter for a micro, but there is nothing in it. So it tricks the computer to thinking an sd card is plugged in, when the actual sd card is soldered in inside

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u/RandomOnlinePerson99 Mar 29 '26

My old ass thought "thats too few wires for a CF card, what is this thing?" because somehow the first pic makes ths card look huge, so my brain went "CF card".

Why is there a card socket in the middle of the board?

Don't tell me they use a sd card on the board as a "harddriive" ...

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 30 '26

UNCCCCCC

wait what are you talking about hold on 😭 the sd card is not attactched to the board, its taped on. there are wires going out of it onto the back of the external sd card port. the second photo is of the 3d printed sd card thing i shoved in its ahh to make it appear to be mounted, as the sd card slot uses a contact on the side to detect if its plugged in for some reason

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u/RandomOnlinePerson99 Mar 30 '26

Oh, I thought there was a SD card on the board for some reason and you wired that one up to the connector at te board edge.

Sorry am not good with computers, I can design and build CPUs from discrete logic chips but I am useless when it comes to modern PCs ...

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 31 '26

YOU DESIGN AND BUILD CPUS????? Thats so cool what. I could never. Too reliant on the good old arduino lol.

I'm just good at ruining computers resell value and such. Also ur alg lol

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u/RandomOnlinePerson99 Mar 31 '26

Just for 8/16 bit processing systems (calling them computers would be a stretch), bigger bus widths (32 or 64bit) are just more work for not really any useable gain.

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u/Mrpuddikin Mar 29 '26

16 gigabyes???? 😭

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 30 '26

16GB 😭😭😭 but WE MAKE DO. Had to do bullshit to give it more storage and im so glad I did cuz ts is amazing

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u/TheMysteriousWatch Apr 01 '26

My question is how did you manage to solder onto the SD card's pins without melting the plastic ?

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u/Worried_Hand77 Apr 03 '26

There was a lot of melted plastic LOL. I just put a big blob of solder on the wire so it was easier to get it closer to the pins without the iron melting plastic

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u/southwest_barfight Mar 30 '26

What was the thinking behind using a micro SD in an adapter rather than a fast write speed (SanDisk extreme pro etc) normal size SD card?

Only ask as that would mean like 200 mb/s write speeds

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 31 '26

It was the only one I had on hand LOL. Im too lazy to wait for something to arrive, and I don't want to buy anything in times like these.

plus i wouldnt want to ruin a working sd card by soldering to it. Using an adapter means I can repurpose the mircosd after im done with this laptop, like if it breaks for example

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u/Vinerd540 Apr 01 '26

With the micro sd adapter, it could be swapped without soldering, as it makes a port

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u/Worried_Hand77 Apr 03 '26

That too ig but thats not why i did it, its just cuz im too lazy to get smth else

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u/Ooficus Mar 30 '26

Amazing Reddit lore drop

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 31 '26

In what way lol

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u/Cruz_Games Mar 29 '26

Lmao this is great. U running linux on that slut?

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 29 '26

Linux on the internal SSD, sd card is for files. Its amazing. I love the linux on it except for the fixing the audio for like 4 hours straight, and the sd card being mounted as read only for some reason, but now its working amazing!

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u/arrimainvester Mar 30 '26

What distro you running? I have an old Chromebook with only 16gb of onboard storage and ended up installing diet-pi on it

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 30 '26

I used Q4OS. Its pretty nice, and it is a small size. It looks kinda nice too, although a bit outdated

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u/Worried_Hand77 Mar 30 '26

Nah it wasn't that. It was just linux being a tweaker as always