Mounting holes on bottom of HDDs?

[tdawg]

So, I am adding a couple of new hard drives to my system and I noticed that all my hard drives have mounting holes on the bottom of the drive. What mounting situation utilizes this. Is it for server cases?

Also, I've never had success mounting hard drives any way but horizontal and right side up. I've heard that people have mounted hard drives vertically and I have a 3.5" mounting spot on the bottom of my 3.5" cage that looks like it accommodates a hard drive mounted upside down, but it's never worked. Can hard drives be mounted upside down or does gravity affect its ability to read/write?

Thanks in advance.

Trevor

 

[allanon1965]

the holes are there for mounting, gateway and other systems sellers mount the hard drive vertically alot of times and that uses the bottom holes, also they can be mounted on a plate adapter that goes into a 5.25 slot behind the cover as alot of old dells and packard bells did years ago, never had a problem mounting a hard drive horizontally or vertically or on its side. they always work for me.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

My old silver CoolerMaster case (ATC-101, one of the original ones) had bottom mount drive mounts. It was nice. Took me forever to find out what the holes were for, but it works just fine when I did have them in there...
Tas.

 

[Leros]

Some HDD coolers attach to those bottom mounting holes.

 

[hemiram]

I had someone's old Win 95 PC with an oddball desktop case that had the HD mounted to the bottom of the case with these holes. They used threadlocker on the screws and two of the heads stripped out and it was a giant pain in the A** to get them out so I could change the dead HD. They had a fan in the case blowing air right on the HD and on the other side was the PS, had great airflow through it. I can't remember the brand of PC is was, it was very well built, but really ugly and huge for the tiny motherboard inside.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Mounting holes.

 

[Susquehannock]

Those bottom mounting holes are great for custom HDD racks.

 

[Greenman]

Antec P160 drive trays use them. Nice setup.

 

Originally posted by: Greenman
Antec P160 drive trays use them. Nice setup.

They have rubber washers too to help with the vibration. Great case, i just got one.

 

[glugglug]

My Antec LANBoy 350 case uses them. Each drive is on a removable slide-out tray, and the mounting screws go through the tray to the bottom of the drive.

 

[shoRunner]

lol you answer your own question...in your question....lol

what are mounting holes for??? ummm mounting?

 

[Penth]

Antec Sonata uses them too.

 

[Zepper]

My case mounts one drive using the bottom holes. Those are probably the best way as it puts less stress on the drive frame than the side holes.

.bh.