Hard Drive Orientation

[Oliver_FF]

I was wondering if it's OK to mount a HDD vertically for a while... It doesn't say in any manuals or anything about the orientation, people's thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[CodeJunkie]

Vertical is fine for the life of the drive if you need. Most enterprise class storage arrays have the drives mounted vertically for packing efficiency. I was going to post an image of one but I don't have a high enough post count.

off topic: maybe I should jump into more flame wars :lol:

 

[Turbo_VE_Max]

Vertical is fine for the life of the drive if you need. Most enterprise class storage arrays have the drives mounted vertically for packing efficiency. I was going to post an image of one but I don't have a high enough post count.

off topic: maybe I should jump into more flame wars :lol:

+1 It's fine. Just try not to move the case around too much when it is running.... but that is good advice no matter how the hard drive is mounted.