Re: Hard Drives: is Horizontal or Vertical Positioning Best?
- From: "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:40:43 -0500
ggdbr01@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> I'd just like to get your opinion: do you think it makes any difference
> in the life-expectency of a hard drive whether you position it
> horizontally or vertically? Which do you think is best?
>
> I've noticed that on the boxes of many external hard drives, they show
> the drive positioned vertically on a little stand enclosed for that
> purpose. Presumably, this is more a space saver than anything, but
> maybe it actually makes a performance difference.
>
> Somehow it seems to me that horizontal positioning would be best since
> the drive is symmetrical with respect to gravity. But maybe this is
> not the right way to think about it.
>
> Any thoughts or opinions on this matter would be appreciated.
If you check the IBM site you'll find that some of their servers mount
drives horizontally and some vertically. Bear in mind that IBM made their
first disk before any current hard disk manufacturer was even incorporated
and they used to lease their equipment with support included so any
reliability problems came out of their pocket not the customer's. If there
was a real difference in reliability they would have picked one or the
other and stuck with it.
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