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germanjulian

06-09-2002, 06:31 PM

is it safe to run my hard-drive sideways?????? or tilted sideways?
fairly new maxtor hard drive????

cableguy69

06-09-2002, 06:59 PM

Makes not diff. In one of my computers, it's 'standing' vertically. My other computers have it hortizontal and in one, it's on its' side.

jmichna

06-09-2002, 07:47 PM

Originally posted by germanjulian
is it safe to run my hard-drive sideways?????? or tilted sideways?
fairly new maxtor hard drive???? It's done all the time.
jmichna

smily_03

06-09-2002, 08:03 PM

yeah, as long as it's secured good and won't vibrate around it'll be perfectly fine

zybch

06-10-2002, 06:34 PM

Just don't run it upside down like Compaq used to do in some of their desktop PCs. The bearings inside the drive will have a much shorter life and the drive will fail sooner. However at the rate that HDD prices are dropping most ppl will upgrade well before this happens.

smelanson

06-10-2002, 07:48 PM

I prefer to run them side ways, more room in some cases.

Peter M

06-11-2002, 05:39 AM

With today's desktop drives, any of the six possible orientations is OK. No tilting though - don't ask why, that's what the specifications say.

Oooooold drives were specified to allow three orientations: horizontal (controller board facing down), or 90 degrees rotated, standing on the left or right side. Upside down, or standing on front or rear sides was not allowed.

regards, Peter

namrak

06-13-2002, 03:20 AM

Well, a co-worker of mine had an extra drive just hanging from the IDE cable so that one end was touching the floor of the case. Obviously, the drive wasn't secured, but its never been a problem to this day. He's had the drive in the unsecure position for over a year now so I guess in a pinch, it would do until you could put it into a drive bay carriage or an external enclosure.

Peter M

06-13-2002, 05:47 AM

That might sound funny, but not securing a drive has a negative impact on seek performance. Why? Inertia makes the drive body move when the heads move, so that actually the heads might miss their targeted track and need to readjust before reading or writing data.

Notebook drives btw don't care at all about orientations and angles.

regards, Peter

Shinta

06-13-2002, 06:12 AM

i have my case open and my hard drive is just laying on the bottom of the case..

im too lazy to mount it back in place :\

a friend of mine took his entire system out of it's case and lays all the parts on a shelf in his desk because he thinks it looks kewl :O