Can I safely change the positions of my hard drives?

[iamfett]

I would like to add an Accelero S1 to my video card and cool it with my my intake fans.
But right now my 2 hard drives are in front of my intake fans in a horizontal position. (see pic.)
I have the option of moving the hard drives up, and into a horizontal position, but I'm concerned that this will cause a hard drive error somewhere down the line. These hard drives are new, have been in this orientation for about 6 months.
Will I have a problem after I change the orientation.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7061/10122008115445bm4.jpg

[LyL18]

As long as you run the drive vertically or horizontally, you should be fine (no weird angles).

[Rogue71]

honestly id remove that lower drive cage altogether and mount your drives in the 3.5 bay above.

[DonDon]

To the best of my knowledge, there are no orientation restrictions on modern hard drives. You can safely move them up to the 3.5" rack, but I would leave a space between them to allow them to run a bit cooler.

That is a really nice clean setup you currently have. :cool:

Don

[iamfett]

honestly id remove that lower drive cage altogether and mount your drives in the 3.5 bay above.

Yep, that's exactly what I wanted to do. I just wanted to be sure that changing the position of the hard drives to horizontal from vertical after having ran them that way for a while, wouldn't cause a problem with the hard drives somewhere down the road.

I know at one time , they recommended that once a drive was mounted in a particular orientation you shouldn't change it. Just wasn't sure if that still stood true or not.

I appreciate the input - thanks all.