Most of today's cases have HDD's mounted flat.

I want to use an older case that stands the HDD on it's edge. I assume
there is no problem with that?

"Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Most of today's cases have HDD's mounted flat.
>
> I want to use an older case that stands the HDD on it's edge. I assume
> there is no problem with that?
>
>
no problem at all

Bill wrote:
> Most of today's cases have HDD's mounted flat.
>
> I want to use an older case that stands the HDD on it's edge. I
> assume there is no problem with that?

I hope not, or the 400+ hard drives in the systems I support at work are
going to hit problems

No problem whatsoever. Lian Li cases typically mount their drives
vertically. The advantage being that the warm air rising from the drive
below is not heating the drive above.

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Stephen
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>Most of today's cases have HDD's mounted flat.
>
>I want to use an older case that stands the HDD on it's edge. I assume
>there is no problem with that?
>
>
Sure, always format it in the position you'll be using it.
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interesting comment..... haven't heard that in awhile...last time was in a Packard bell troubleshooting session years ago....it did
solve the customers problem, much to the dismay of the rest of the group...\

"AJ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
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> >Most of today's cases have HDD's mounted flat.
> >
> >I want to use an older case that stands the HDD on it's edge. I assume
> >there is no problem with that?
> >
> >
> Sure, always format it in the position you'll be using it.
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>interesting comment..... haven't heard that in awhile...last time was in a Packard bell troubleshooting session years ago....it did
>solve the customers problem, much to the dismay of the rest of the group...\

That's what Leo says on TSS so that's what I do.
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good ole Leo........ I maybe doing a remote segment on that show about the disabled and accessibility in the near future....I'm
one of many people in line, keeping my fingers crossed


floppies have the same sort of problems on occasion when they are taken from a vertical flop to a horizontal


"AJ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
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> >interesting comment..... haven't heard that in awhile...last time was in a Packard bell troubleshooting session years ago....it
did
> >solve the customers problem, much to the dismay of the rest of the group...\
>
> That's what Leo says on TSS so that's what I do.
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"JAD" wrote:
> interesting comment..... haven't heard that in awhile...
> last time was in a Packard bell troubleshooting session
> years ago....it did solve the customers problem,
> much to the dismay of the rest of the group...\


Do you recall what year that occurred?
Was the hard drive a 5 1/2" IDE?


*TimDaniels*

"Bill" wrote:
> Most of today's cases have HDD's mounted flat.
>
> I want to use an older case that stands the HDD
> on it's edge. I assume there is no problem with that?


I called Maxtor and Western Digital about that about
3 weeks ago. Their Tech Support reps said that the
orientation did not matter. The WD rep only added
that the drive should be mounted flat on one of its
surfaces - not "slanted". In my Dell Dimension
(4 1/2 years old), the 17GB 5400rpm Maxtor drive
is mounted standing on its end, right in the path of
incoming air, and I haven't had any problems with it.


*TimDaniels*

>good ole Leo........ I maybe doing a remote segment on that show about the disabled and accessibility in the near future....I'm
>one of many people in line, keeping my fingers crossed
>
>
> floppies have the same sort of problems on occasion when they are taken from a vertical flop to a horizontal
>
>
That's great. They just had a good segment on a gentleman with CP and
a talking PC. I might be on the show too if I win the MOD contest!
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