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Opening up

Let’s see what’s inside the Salora HDD 2510. Byebye warranty…

HDD2510 internals

The 250 GB hard drive turns out to be a common IDE drive. The CPU is hidden behind a cooling plate.    

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2 Responses to “Opening up”

  1. fzabkar Says:
    May 11th, 2008 at 4:00 am

    It looks very similar to my Tevion TDR250HD.

    http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/DVD/TDR250HD/Photos/

    Parts list:
    http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/DVD/TDR250HD/PartList.txt

    Region free procedure:
    http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/DVD/TDR250HD/RegnFree.txt

    I suspect that the DVD loader could be replaced with an IDE version if a 40-way header were added to the PCB.

  2. fzabkar Says:
    May 14th, 2008 at 2:44 am

    The Salora HDD2510 appears to be a rebadged DR5505 manufactured by Shenzhen MTC Multimedia Co., Ltd.

    The service manual and circuit diagrams are here:
    http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/DVD/TDR250HD/DR5505/

    These were graciously provided by René Moret of Albers Trading BV, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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