Hypothetical Case Design

[Quixylvre]

How reasonable would it be to design a case with 3.5" _external_ bays for floppy, Zip, and memory card readers positioned with drives mounted vertically (either with the disks being inserted in and ejected out the TOP of the chassis, or out the front with the drive mounted on its side)? I've seen floppy drives mounted on their side, but would a Zip drive face issues from such positioning, given their notorious "click of death" epidemic?

[antiacid]

I'm not quite sure what is the gain of rotating a drive bay 90degrees?

Also, why would you want external bays? Wouldn't you be better off getting an external card reader or whatnot and just putting it wherever you want? Anyway, as for recent techs (so, hm, not zip drives), positioning doesn't seem to matter whatsoever.

[trekie86]

Not quite sure what you'd want a ZIP drive for, go for USB stick if you need something larger than a floppy. If you did mount a zip drive vertically, the biggest problem you are going to have it the weight of the disk, the drive may not be able to push it out with gravity working against it.