On Oct 23, 2008, at 3:47 PM, g3-5-list group wrote:
> == 1 of 4 == > Date: Thurs, Oct 23 2008 8:49 am > From: Steve R > > Are there some drives that should not be vertical or can I safely > ass-u-me that drives less than 5 years old can be mounted either > vertical or horizontal? > > Steve R > -- On Oct 23, 2008, at 8:03 PM, g3-5-list group wrote: > > == 3 of 12 == > Date: Thurs, Oct 23 2008 2:33 pm > From: Bruce Johnson > > 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. So, it seems safe for Steve, the original poster, to move his external drive from horizontal to vertical, right? Al Poulin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
