Richard Owlett wrote:
On 06/21/2019 02:05 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm rearranging my home work area. It would be convenient to set an
old desktop computer on its side. Will the hard drive having its
rotation axis changed?
Richard,
If you're asking whether the hard drive will operate properly when
oriented
vertially, the answer is 'yes.'
Think of the orientation of many external USB backup drive cases.
With things mechanical, I'm better off asking ;/
Thank you
While it is true that the drive will operate properly in either (any?)
orientation, it is my understanding that some drives, after operating in
one orientation from the beginning, may then have an early end of life
upon changing that orientation ... no experience with that myself, and
perhaps the newer drives have overcome the problem, if it ever was a
problem ... RE: "the orientation of many external USB backup drive
cases". The few drives I have had to re orientate have survived the
short time until I didn't need them any longer ... what usually fails
for me is some other part of the old hardware.
Regards
Fred James
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