On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:56 PM, Al Poulin wrote:
> And then there is another angle. An old tale (perhaps mythic?) was > that once a hard drive has "worn in" in either the horizontal or > vertical orientation, one should not change its original orientation > to the other. What's up with that? Back in "Ye Aulden Days" when men were men and hard drives were 12 pound hunks of spinning metal with read heads the size of paperback books, yes, the direction a drive 'wore in' at mattered. Modern hard drives whose platters are ever thinner and lighter, and whose read heads use atomic forces to work do not have that problem. Their motors have magnetically suspended bearings, which don't care which way gravity's vector goes. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
