Re: Hard Drives: is Horizontal or Vertical Positioning Best?

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:01:41 GMT, Frazer Jolly Goodfellow
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>"shopping" <shopping@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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>> as long as its at a 90 degree to a side its ok
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>> i.e. either horizontal or vertical anyway up but NOT say 30
>> degrees
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>> from an article i read years ago
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>I can only assume that is because drive manufacturers don't specify
>their products for use in any other orientations, rather than any
>firm evidence that such orientations adversely affect reliability or
>performance. Otherwise deployment in transportation systems would
>require some very sophisticated mountings to maintain those
>orientations in practice.

I had a case a while back, where mounting in 1 bay resulted in the
drive being on a slight angle. The result was the drive running MUCH
hotter than it should, and an overheating tape drive (when in the
bay). This was not a cooling issue. Even though times have changed I
still like to make sure drives aren't significantly off level, or
perpendicular to it. Call it superstition but I just don't trust
these motors on odd angles.
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