You can operate a hard drive in any position.

"Peter" <moogk@notsympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> This may not be the appropriate place to ask but I couldn't think of a
> better newsgroup at the moment.
>
> I just bought an external hard drive which comes with a stand designed to
> hold the drive on its side (ie: spinning on a horizontal axis rather than
> lying flat). Is this a good (or even acceptable) idea?
>
> Peter
>