Is it OK to place hard drives VERTICALLY?

[MegaVovaN]

Hi all, I got a mini tower with poor cooling (1.2 ghz Celeron, 256 RAM, onboard video) with 2 drives:

20gb 2mb cache IDE
100 gb 4 (or 8?) mb cache IDE


I want to place that mini tower horizontally, thus placing disks vertically. I'm thinking to make it a print/file server for my LAN.

Can I let drives stand vertically, or should I take out drive cage and mount it so that drives are HORIZONTAL in CD/DVD bay area using zip-ties?

Cheerz, MEGA

 

[Slugbait]

This question was asked just a week or two ago...

Yes.

 

[MegaVovaN]

Thought it would be asked before, but I PHAIL with search.

 

[Slugbait]

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
Thought it would be asked before, but I PHAIL with search.

Yeah, search doesn't work all that well for me either

 

[Modelworks]

yes you can place it in any orientation you like.
Sideways, 45 degrees, upside down, don't matter
As long as you don't move it around while its running your fine .

 

[Sheninat0r]

http://www.silentpcreview.com/.../viewtopic.php?t=21533

 

[corkyg]

This question has been asked every year for the past 15 years at least. Back in the old days of the Seagate ST-51 series, it made a minor difference only if the orientation was changed. Nowadays - it makes no difference at all. Look at all of the external vertical drives! I have put them in at strange angles with Velcro - no problem at all.

 

[Jiggz]

This question has been asked every year for the past 15 years at least.

It just goes to show that our membership is still growing especially with the younger generations

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Jiggz
It just goes to show that our membership is still growing especially with the younger generations

And there is nothing wrong with that at all. Keep the newbs coming.

 

[toughwimp11]

yeah, in fact some cases have vertical holders

 

[MegaVovaN]

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edit: grats!

corkyg
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