For a hot second back then, that purple-y plastic was very in vogue and though I still have a soft spot for those hard shells ...

Originally introduced as the Digital Video Disc ... pits on an otherwise polished surface. The disc is covered with a protective, transparent coating so that it can be read by a laser beam.

Buffalo designed the Skeleton Hard Disk as an external USB drive with a premium package and design, though its technical ...

Don’t whip out your credit card just yet, though; the Buffalo Skeleton Hard Disk ... transparent housing that put all of its electronic components on display. At CES 2006, Western Digital ...

Buffalo Japan has launched the Buffalo HD-SKL 'skeleton hard disk' with a transparent panel showing the inner mechanism.