Mounting Hard Drive Sideways

[smerf]

What is everybodys opinion about mounting drives sideways (on scsi cards, etc)?  Does it hurt or shorten the lifespan of the hard drive.  If so, I will just mount it in my floppy drive bay.  Thanks

Hi,

At barney,

Mounting a hard drive sideways wears out the platters more, not only that but every week you have to check the air and kick the platters to make sure that they have enough air.

Remember your original platter warranty does not cover hitting obsticles like windows Vista which can cause platter crash. Newer platter warranty does have coverage on Windows 7 (trial period) and Linux.

Now when platters are mounted flat, you need not worry since platters never hit the road.

smerf

[smerf]

It's been done for years, and is still being done (in servers, for example). No harm caused by sideways mounting.

But, I have heard a rumour that if you initially mount a drive sideways, run it for a period of time, and then mount it flat (horizontal), the drive wont like it. I have no further info than this.

Hi,

@ matt020,

This is because you didn't read the manual and use proper platter rotation.

smerf