Thread: hard drive mounting questions

of course you can, most poeple recommend vertical anyway (personally i dont think it makes a difference), I dont see any issues with it being standing tall.

just make sure that its mounted parallel to the car so that if you make a hard stop, the read/write heads dont go crashing into the platters and totally ******* up the drive.

Originally Posted by Vchat20

just make sure that its mounted parallel to the car so that if you make a hard stop, the read/write heads dont go crashing into the platters and totally ******* up the drive.

BS.... it does not matter what orientation. Mount it firmly to the car.

Any 'potential' HD failure will probably happensitting on a desk or be power related (not well regulated). Several desktop drives have been in aut crashes and not suffered a failure... Mine has been in several and is fine.

thanks guys

Originally Posted by TruckinMP3

BS.... it does not matter what orientation. Mount it firmly to the car.

People have been fighting over this for years. Personally, what can it hurt to be extra cautious unless it's a mounting issue.

Originally Posted by EBFoxbat

People have been fighting over this for years. Personally, what can it hurt to be extra cautious unless it's a mounting issue.

It is a mounting issue. Firm mount and orientation does not matter. I have been in on most of the threads for those years you mention We have even seen a HD engineer state the the surfaces of drive platters are mostly un-scratchable due to the process used to make them

Originally Posted by TruckinMP3

It is a mounting issue. Frim mount and orientation does not matter. I have been in on most of the threads for those years you mention We have even seen a HD engineer state the the surfaces of drive platters are mostly un-scratchable due to the process used to make them

But can't you misalign the heads or bend the heads if they hit each other?

Originally Posted by 0l33l

But can't you misalign the heads or bend the heads if they hit each other?

Silly Octopus...
The heads couldn't hit one another.
they could, however, hit the platters. That would be, as they say, bad.

Originally Posted by DarquePervert

Silly Octopus...
The heads couldn't hit one another.
they could, however, hit the platters. That would be, as they say, bad.

Yeh, I meant waht would happen if the heads hit the platters. Guess I phrased it wrong