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bigKr33

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This is the second time its happened in the past week. I would be playing a game for example like nfs most wanted and i'll be driving or whatever and the rest of the map will like disappear, the game will stop saying thats it loading. Ok fine, but then it stopped loading and did it again (while i was racing). So i closed out the game try to run an avg virus scan to see if that was the problem and it frozed again.

Ok my hardware is in the sig, the hard drives as you know are raptors in raid, but i have them mounted on the bottom of the case and they're mounted sideways(thats how the design is), but i think i heard this somewhere, but doesn't mounting your hd's sideways magnetically limit hard drive life?

Anyone have a different take to my problem.
 
I heard that disk platters are designed to spin on a cushion of air underneath them, so I think mounting them sideways is probably a bad idea. I have seen them run that way though, and I'm not a physicist so what do I know.

Other explainations - Virus (try more than just AVG), overheating, low or failing power supply.
 
that sucks because the reason why i put the hd's on the bottom is becasue they were getting way to close to my 7800, actually let me refraise that, they were touching my video card and restricting air flow.

You would think that such a brillant case wouldn't have a dumb side to it.
 
Originally posted by: bigKr33
that sucks because the reason why i put the hd's on the bottom is becasue they were getting way to close to my 7800, actually let me refraise that, they were touching my video card and restricting air flow.

You would think that such a brillant case wouldn't have a dumb side to it.
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Mounting drives sideways is fine. I've seen a number of professional NAS/SAN products that do this, and these guys *really* care about drive lifespan. I'm sure the manufacturers would say something as well if mounting them in a particular way was bad.

The platters don't 'spin on a cushion of air'; they're VERY rigidly mounted to the spindle. Turning them sideways/upside down/whatever won't affect them. Perhaps you read something about drive heads that rely on having an air cushion between the head and the platter; however, this is totally different, and should still work in any orientation.
 
Originally posted by: Matthias99
Originally posted by: bigKr33
that sucks because the reason why i put the hd's on the bottom is becasue they were getting way to close to my 7800, actually let me refraise that, they were touching my video card and restricting air flow.

You would think that such a brillant case wouldn't have a dumb side to it.
Click to expand...

Mounting drives sideways is fine. I've seen a number of professional NAS/SAN products that do this, and these guys *really* care about drive lifespan. I'm sure the manufacturers would say something as well if mounting them in a particular way was bad.

The platters don't 'spin on a cushion of air'; they're VERY rigidly mounted to the spindle. Turning them sideways/upside down/whatever won't affect them. Perhaps you read something about drive heads that rely on having an air cushion between the head and the platter; however, this is totally different, and should still work in any orientation.
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That's it - the heads not the platters. Good man. As I said I'm not an expert on such things.
 
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