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

[voytech]

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

[amigamad]

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

They are good i have a cf to ide adaptor fast as well. :-)

[that_punk_guy]

Both my Compaq Deskpros came with the HD mounted on its side.

I hope you're talking bout drilling the case and not the HD, 'cause I reckon the drill vibrations would do more damage than it will suffer from being installed in a strange position...

[amigamad]

This is the easiest water cooling i have seen http://www.qtec.info/products/product.htm?artnr=13793

[voytech]

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??

[whabang]

voytech wrote:

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??

60-70000 writes. Microdrives probably last longer.

[Linchpin]

Hmm my Pee See has got 3 HDDs, all hanging in there by 1 screw, etc i dont think it matters tbh.. but i dunno :-)

[darksun9210]

amigamad wrote:
This is the easiest water cooling i have seen http://www.qtec.info/products/product.htm?artnr=13793

damn! if only i'd have known about this when i had my cyberstorm! :-D

[Van_M]

Quote:    Van_M wrote:  Speaking of funny stories, one good friend of mine is a student soooo poor, that after his cooling fan died, he didn't have money to buy a new one, so he found a new way of cooling his CPU... watercooling!!! He placed a sealed, water-filled nylon bag on top of the heatsink! It has been working great for a couple or three days, until a hole was cut on the bag........ ouch :-x !     edit: forgot to say, he had all the components spread on the desk!  

... I'm just shaking my head in disbelief ... that's just so amazingly stupid ...    Oh well. Sorry if someone feels offended now, but seriously. Common sense is something that everyone has.. Just stop to think for a while.

If you think that everyone has common sense, you better think again! You probably don't know of any Greek students in the UK.... In another occasion, this guy had no belt for his trousers and was using a computer mouse as one!!! He was tying the cable around his waist and kept the mouse in the pocket....now you probably understand of what type of person I'm talking about! Anyway, the hardware was already quite old by the time it happened, and I lend this guy an old mobo+CPU+RAM+PSU to get a system up & running again.... I might still have the photo of the ruined hardware....

[Doobrey]

This reminds of something I read a while back..

Some guy wanted to upgrade his old computer, so he goes and buys a new , top of the range CPU (which at the time was a slot mounted P2).
 He takes it home, fits it..doesn`t boot, he figures the CPU is faulty and phones the shop and complains, they tell him to bring the whole system in to look at.
 When the shop tech opens the case, he couldn`t believe what he saw..the P2 was mounted in an ISA slot..
He told him that the CPU should go in the CPU slot...and this 486 didn`t couldn`t take slot type CPUs, and asks how he even managed to make it fit in the ISA slot..
 "Well, it took me a while, but I eventually managed to file it down till it went in"
 It goes without saying he didn`t get a refund.

[Jose]

Well, I actually ended up drilling the mounting cradle to make the thing fit perfectly.... :-D  Finally I have enouph HD space in my desktop A1200 (20Gb) :-o  :-o  :-D