HD mounting torque can have catastrophic consequences?! (2.5"laptop HD on A1200 cradle)

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Jose wrote:
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Not that I was gonna drill the motherboard and processor :-P

I know, I know  :-D

BTW, that is a real story, one of my friends worked in cmopu shop service, he told me bout that, even showed me that poor 'puter (not that I'm after pc's, but...), that's a shame we didn't make a photo of it..

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You clever guy!

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Casper wrote:

Yap, that's the deal. I read somewhere that it's more advisable to have it mounted corrctly.

A couple of months ago I needed to mount my new 3.5" Western Digital HD vertically instead of horizontally in my PC as is normal. I checked with Western Digital about this and how it would affect the drive and they said that it doesn't matter at all how you mount it, you can mount it anyway you like, even upside down if you wish without any consequences for the drive whatsoever.

Yep  ;-)  I used my old 20GB drive to "hang on" cables, lay in "belly up" position, stand position, think every possible positions, and it still rocks
 :-D

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darksun9210 wrote:
i found this which is slightly off topic, but ever wanted to have a silent A1200? no drives buzzing or clattering away....



and sizes up to 4Gb (over 512Mb / 1Gb prices go crazy for compact flash cards)

Minibox.com

I'm wondering what's the lifetime os such disks??