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

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
>

Peter wrote:

> 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
>
>

It's fine. The hard drive doesn't care what position it's in. I have
mine on its side as it takes up less room that way.

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With today's drives, as long as you don't interfere or obstruct cooling,
drive orientation is immaterial.

Peter wrote:

> 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
>
>