Mounting A HD Upright

[pitata]

I wonder if mounting a HD like this | instead of like this - would have any major effect on the life expectancy of the disk.

The arms speed won't be affected because it's balanced, but I was thinking about the bearings in motor and the disk axel parts.

I’ve seen both | and - in my days of computing.

Although I’ve heard that / or \ is not recommended.

The reason for asking is cause I will mount my HD:s like this | | suspended them with elastic bands to make them silent and cool.

[AnjinSan1966]

I wonder if mounting a HD like this | instead of like this - would have any major effect on the life expectancy of the disk.

The arms speed won't be affected because it's balanced, but I was thinking about the bearings in motor and the disk axel parts.

I’ve seen both | and - in my days of computing.

Although I’ve heard that / or \ is not recommended.

The reason for asking is cause I will mount my HD:s like this | | suspended them with elastic bands to make them silent and cool.

I have 2 HD:s mounted like that in my LianLi Pc60 and have not had any problems whatsoever.

[nn_step]

only if the drives spin at less than 5 RPM 24/7 for about three years

[z-design]

Mounting an HD upright is never recommended. Let alone ****in hanging them from a meazly elastic band.

The upright mount has a different gravity effect that the engineers never intended the drive to sustain. Horizontally, the head has a consistent overall gravity when going back and forth. Upright, it has more force toward one way, and less the other, and chances are that you're drive will have errors. Sure the drive can run, but it will fail sooner -Also, upright is more susceptible to vibrations and movement.

Now when you're hanging them from an elastic band, they're in there swinging around like a goddamned pendulum. Any movement, shifts are vibrations to the surface on which your computer sits on will have an effect on the movement of the case, which will ultimately lead to the drives. Any constant slightest movement to your drives is a factor to it failing sooner.


So my advice.. JUST MOUNT THEM THE WAY THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE MOUNTED!

[nn_step]

ummm not to correct you but at those RPMs. Gravity will not be anymore than a Fraction of a Hundredth of a precent of the force appliced by the simple spinning of the Disc platters