is it ok to mount a hard drive vertically?
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is it ok to mount a hard drive vertically?
as opposed to horizontally, just wondering if it will wear the bearings out early or something?
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Do you have a source for this?davidstone28 wrote:You can mount it vertically or horizontally but NEVER mount it on a slope or at an angle - over a period of time you will damage the drive.
leads me to believe it no longer matters how you mount the things (at least Seagates - some other drives the bits may slide off the platters )Seagate 7200.7 Product Manual Rev A wrote:You can mount the drive in any orientation ...
IBM/Hitachi - Page 2.
WD.
The other major manufacturers didn't say much about the allowable orientations for a drive. IIRC Seagate said any orientation is OK. Whatever that means...
Cheers,
Jan
WD.
The other major manufacturers didn't say much about the allowable orientations for a drive. IIRC Seagate said any orientation is OK. Whatever that means...
Cheers,
Jan
Yea, mounting a HD vertically shouldn't be a problem as the previous line of Dell Dimensions circa 1999-2000 used cases that placed the HD vertically at the front of the case (I would know as I had a version of the non-branded case used by Dell -- a case I would NOT recommend, btw, for housing a power system).