Adding second HD

[nasteve]

I have a three year old 80 gig WD hard drive I want to add to my secondary box for storage. the only option is to mount it vertical. Is there any problems with this or is it a bad idea? Higher fail rate?
Thanks,
Steve

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

No problem at all. You can mount the hard drive however you wish.

 

[Blain]

I would say, format the disk after you have it mounted.

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
No problem at all. You can mount the hard drive however you wish.

except diagonally

 

[nasteve]

Thanks for the replys and yes I will format it. I might try diagonally.

 

[corkyg]

Diagonally is OK too. That happens to a lot of laptops. Look at H-P's laptop docking station. It places the entire laptop in a diagonal position, and thus the HDD is running diagonally as well. Like was said - any position is OK - even upside down.

HP

 

[Boyo]

Just don't bang it around and you should be fine in any position.

 

[APE992]

I concur with the above. I've got several Dell and Compaq machines that mount vertically. Diagnol would be the only one that I would worry about but I'd image harddrives are sturdy enough for it.

 

[Matthias99]

They're fine in any orientation. Really. The stuff in there is bolted together pretty securely. About the only thing that will really screw it up is dropping or otherwise severely jarring the drive while it is spinning.

Several enterprise storage arrays I've seen have the disks arranged vertically... and they REALLY care about reliability. If there was a real difference, the drive manufacturers would say so.

 

[NuAlphaMan]

Originally posted by: Boyo
Just don't bang it around and you should be fine in any position.

Man, you can just run with this ^ comment!!!!!