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Hard drive mounting

again, I'm assuming you mean vertically, as you might in a Lian-Li case.
I currently have 4 SATA drives mounted vertically in a Lian-Li PC-61 case. I will say that I have been experiencing an intermittent problem with one of them (a Seagate 'Cuda 200GB), making a clicking noise and being removed from my system. I'm not sure what the cause of this is, but I haven't ruled out the mounting.

That said, my other three drives, including my Raptor system drive all work fine. Also, I haven't heard of anyone else complaining about problems with hard drive mouting in the Lian-Li cases, so I would say that you probably won't have a problem. I'm guessing my problem is more likely either a bad hard drive or a faulty SATA cable.
 
Most drive mfrs now claim that it is OK to mount hard drives in ANY orientation EXCEPT more that 5 degrees off of horizontal or vertical (IOW, tilted). I still have a taboo against mounting them upside-down ( PCB up) - if I ever find one upside-down, I FIX IT! This happens most often in older Compaqs (too cheap to add a 25 cent bracket). My main SCSI (IBM 10k) drive is mounted nose down on the side bar of my new Silverstone Berserker case and it seems fine with it - it was mounted "properly" until now... But horizontal with the PCB down is still optimum as it exerts the most equalized forces on the mechanism.

.bh.

Here, have a :beer: !

:moon:
 
i've heard that whatever position you format the drive in is what you should have it in for day to day operation...anyone know if there is any truth to this?
 
Used to be so before voice-coil servo head location was common (mechanical stepper motors). Servo head location should find the track regardless. Besides only the factory can really change the low-level format on current drives. But sticklers continue to do it anyway - it certainly can't hurt...
. As long as there is adequate free space on the drive, programs like SpinRite GRC can reformat the drive with the data in place. good to back up beforehand anyway.

.bh.

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