Mounting Hard Drive Sideways

[outlawal2]

Just for the record, there is absolutely nothing wrong with mounting current modern hard drives sideways or horizontal. Does not matter.  Mounting really old drives may pose a problem but I really doubt that too..   As stated in one of the above posts, don't mount a drive at an angle (such as 45 degrees) as the platters will not be balanced properly and you may have read/write errors.  

In a nutshell, mount your drive either completely flat or 90 degrees sideways and you will be fine..
(I support thousands of servers and nearly every one of them has drives mounted sideways)

[outlawal2]

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

Yeah Wow you are a real funny guy...  This guy comes to Amiga.org to get some decent info and you reply with rubbish like that...   Gee.. Thanks...

As I said before, mounting a HD sideways will not hurt it in any way..

[outlawal2]

I mounted a hard drive and cdrom with a 12 gauge shotgun once. It was pretty cool.

They didn't even try to piss me off after that...

@outlawal2
"As I said before, mounting a HD sideways will not hurt it in any way.. "

yeah the question as been answered several times so the rubbish is just joking around, is that ok?

Yeah looking back I suppose it has and you are right.  Sorry about that I only read the last page and it just struck me wrong..   anyway disregard my comment please..