91 honda accord install

**kandyman676** · 06-16-2004, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by ryguy

Ahhhh the asus pundit

good choice! You may want to mount it vertically to save wear on your hard disk. Once i take some pictures of my setup I'll post them up. I have a Pundit box mounted to my sub box. It is spaced a few inches away and also has foam around the mounting brackets for shock resistance.

Good job so far

actually, you *NEED* to mount it vertically. once good hard bump on the harddisk from a speed bump or pothole can take out a partion, some data, or the whole drive. I learned my lesson the hard way and always mount the harddrive on its side.

as always, make sure you have backups of your data, esp with that large of a drive.

**robiewp** · 06-16-2004, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by kandyman676

actually, you *NEED* to mount it vertically. once good hard bump on the harddisk from a speed bump or pothole can take out a partion, some data, or the whole drive. I learned my lesson the hard way and always mount the harddrive on its side.

When your read head motors go from being thrown arround (by putting them in the plane that the car gets jerked arround much), you won't just loose some data, you'll with certainty loose the whole drive.

This is an age old debate.

**kandyman676** · 06-16-2004, 12:40 PM

yes, very much aware of the age old debate:-)

My point is that you may *not* loose the whole drive. I had the "wonderful" experience of having a 20GB harddrive loose all of its data in one deep pothole bump when it was laying flat and very coushined back in 2001. The drive survived though, but I had to reformat the drive since the paration table and data on it was f-ed.

i learned to mount it on its side back then:

laptop harddrives are a completely different story; they are made to take some medium abuse.

**nl4jy** · 06-17-2004, 09:52 AM

I'm not completely understand on how to mount the HD? I'm currently mounted it == as that's the only way it will fit in my glovebox...

But with the glovebox closed, it should be more of a // position. You're telling me I should mount it || ?

**kandyman676** · 06-17-2004, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by nl4jy

I'm not completely understand on how to mount the HD? I'm currently mounted it == as that's the only way it will fit in my glovebox...

But with the glovebox closed, it should be more of a // position. You're telling me I should mount it || ?

correct, it should be mounted || .... you may still loose some data in a bump (i didn't though over the roughest PA roads), but not greatly decreases the chances of killing the drive if it was laying == when the head hits the platter hard.

if you can, try to avoid the // position. cause then you have the worst of both mounts. if it hits a bump, it would be just as likely or worse to have the harddrive head hit the platter hard.

hope that helps!