Quote: 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.