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LinuxRacr · 03-30-2007, 03:55 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by popi79

In my years of experience dealing with computers I have had the experience that hard drives that are mounted vertical tend to fail faster than horizontal ones, this can be due to ball bearing having to deal with gravity and taking in consideration that this drive is going to be subjected to constant movement and vibrations its worth taking a look to the mounting position of it, again this is my own experience and I haven't researched for specific data...

Otherwise thumbs up looks great...

Cheers.

Thanks for the heads-up on that! I will re-mount it a little later. I just picked up some round IDE cables from Fry's. I will also be adding that.

03-30-2007, 03:55 PM	#11
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