Upside Down HDD

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I installed a 2nd disk drive, and because of the drive bay and the way the
holes line up, I could only install it upside down. It is a Maxtor 80gb.
The silver top is down, and the black side with the circuitry is up.

Will this cause any errors or shorten the life of the disk?
 
From: "Buck Turgidson" (e-mail address removed)
Date: 11/01/2003 1:44 PM Eastern Standard Time
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I installed a 2nd disk drive, and because of the drive bay and the way the
holes line up, I could only install it upside down. It is a Maxtor 80gb.
The silver top is down, and the black side with the circuitry is up.

Will this cause any errors or shorten the life of the disk?
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No.
 
I installed a 2nd disk drive, and because of the drive bay and the way the
holes line up, I could only install it upside down. It is a Maxtor 80gb.
The silver top is down, and the black side with the circuitry is up.

Will this cause any errors or shorten the life of the disk?
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It's very difficult to read upside down data on the screen.


Why not ask the manufacturer whether any problems will occur?
If anybody knowa, it's them.

Jack
 
Buck Turgidson said:
I installed a 2nd disk drive, and because of the drive bay and the way the
holes line up, I could only install it upside down. It is a Maxtor 80gb.
The silver top is down, and the black side with the circuitry is up.

Will this cause any errors or shorten the life of the disk?
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i've used harddrives both upside down and vertically mounted
without the slightest problem
 
MyndPhlyp said:
Could be worse - it could be upside down and backwards.
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That's pretty bad, but NEVER tilt the HD 90 degrees, or all the
text will be facing you edgewise - it's a right bastard to read then.
 
I installed a 2nd disk drive, and because of the drive bay and the way the
holes line up, I could only install it upside down. It is a Maxtor 80gb.
The silver top is down, and the black side with the circuitry is up.

Will this cause any errors or shorten the life of the disk?
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As the rest said.Luckily hard drives don't care :D



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Buck Turgidson said:
I installed a 2nd disk drive, and because of the drive bay and the way the
holes line up, I could only install it upside down. It is a Maxtor 80gb.
The silver top is down, and the black side with the circuitry is up.

Will this cause any errors or shorten the life of the disk?
Click to expand...
Probably not. However I had one of those infamous IBM deskstar drives which
failed, potentially losing a lot of data. During the data recovery process
and the extreme malhandling of the drive during this process I found that it
would run more reliably when inverted. Once I had recovered the data the
drive was taken out of use. So long term operation upside down was not
tested. If you tinker inside your case a lot there may be an increased
probability of foreign objects dropping on to the electronics.

Martyn Holliday
 
I installed a 2nd disk drive, and because of the drive bay and the way the
holes line up, I could only install it upside down. It is a Maxtor 80gb.
The silver top is down, and the black side with the circuitry is up.

Will this cause any errors or shorten the life of the disk?
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makes no difference. I even mirrored a HD....

frgr
Erik
 
I installed a 2nd disk drive, and because of the drive bay and the way the
holes line up, I could only install it upside down. It is a Maxtor 80gb.
The silver top is down, and the black side with the circuitry is up.

Will this cause any errors or shorten the life of the disk?
Click to expand...


The only problematic position, in my opininion, would be
inside-out....

frgr
Erik
 
Buck Turgidson said:
I installed a 2nd disk drive, and because of the drive bay and the way the
holes line up, I could only install it upside down. It is a Maxtor 80gb.
The silver top is down, and the black side with the circuitry is up.

Will this cause any errors or shorten the life of the disk?
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For me it's the oposite situation. My old Maxtor won't run unless i place it
upside down. Pretty weird thing?
The model: 91303D6 DIAMONDM4320
 
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