Horizontal Vs. Vertical mounting

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Emulex
DAT tapes? you ever seen what they do? they need gravity in order to lift the tape out and around the drum.

you ever seen a see-through vcr and how it works?

? They both work just fine in horizontal position. I'm a bit confused as to the source of your confusion. My reel-to-reels worked the same way, stand'em up vertically or lay them down horizontally and it did not make a difference. Tension baby, tension.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: Elixer

Originally posted by: taltamir
btw, in addition to the arm going against gravity (I am more concerned about the part where gravity "helps"), there is also the issue of vibration on a platter spinning horizontally instead of vertically.
You wanna see something catastrophical? put your PC in horizontal position, put a CD in... start READING something off of the CD... and lift the the PC to vertical position WHILE the disk is reading... this is NOT gonna be pretty...

Now we know what you do in your free time! 😉

For what it is worth, I have seen HD racks that have the HDs in both orientations, and I can't say that horizontal rack has had more issues than the vertical rack.

Having said that, there is a big sticker on one of the DAT drive that says "Only use in horizontal orientation", and when I asked why it had that, they said it had to do with dust.

that... was actually just because i wasn't paying attention this one time... (when I work on a computer i just lay it on its side and open it without unplugging anything)