Hard drives use fluid dynamic bearings. They do not experience wear as long as the fluid is there in fluid state.
So, changing disk orientation while the disk is not spinning is fine. - Tomas On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 15:52 Fred James <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
