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Question about Hard drive

LaTech

LaTech

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Ok. I'm working on a new project and am in the design stages of figuring out how I want to position things. I've read in these forums somewhere that you aren't supposed to put a hdd at and angle. I've seen HDD on their side and correct side up, but I have never heard anything about putting one upside down. Does anyone know of any reason that one shouldn't put a HDD upside down?
 
I don't think right side up or upside down are of concern to a modern HDD. I'm fairly certain I've seen them stuck vertically, in strange places, and so forth. You could use laptop drives. They are getting faster these days, and obviously work in all sorts of odd angles and so forth.


You know, you should probably try The Disk Storage Systems forum because I imagine this has been debated over there in detail.
 
Thanks...I did a search, but couldn't find anything. Will repost there.

Grazie!
 
Awesome, man...thanks. I did several searches and came up with nothing.
 
From what I've heard and seen around here and various other places, the only problem seems to be with mounting them at an angle (ie / or \ ) as it throws the balance out on the platters/heads. Horizontal and vertical planes are both fine. Upside down is ok (though why you would I don't know), and on their side is fine (which is how the drive in my Auriga CS-2100 is in desktop mode)
 
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