Mounting Hard Drive Sideways

[KThunder]

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?

[KThunder]

Drives old enough to be effected are probably long dead from other causes. By the early to mid 90's drive technology had advanced so far that multi-g impacts while running, thermal operating calibration, and other problems that plagued early drives were nearly gone.

even back in the 80's though there were hard cards designed by competant intelligent engineers that were concerned with reliability that placed drives on their sides. I would be very suprised if the bearings weren't though of in that situation.