On Oct 24, 7:56 am, Al Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 23, 2008, at 3:47 PM, g3-5-list group 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 cha
At 9:23 PM -0400 10/23/08, Al Poulin posted:
>
> So, it seems safe for Steve, the original poster, to move his external
> drive from horizontal to vertical, right?
That's how I'm interpreting the thread. I'll let you know if the data
falls off the platter onto the floor ;-)
Thanks
Steve R
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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 10/23/08 3:09 PM, "Bruce Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Broadcast into the ether:
> and you get two of the strongest damn refrigerator
> magnets you'll ever need. I have a hdd magnet on my fridge holding up
> about 15 pages of recipes.
Ha ha ha. Same here. Have 2 on my fridge right now...lol.
PeterH wrote:
>
> On Oct 23, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>
>> Next time you get a dead HDD, tear it down. Good info on how drives
>> are made nowadays,and you get two of the strongest damn refrigerator
>> magnets you'll ever need. I have a hdd magnet on my fridge holding up
>> about 1
Bruce Johnson wrote:
>
> On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Dan wrote:
>
>>> It's done by a voice-coil "motor", not a stepper motor, and no
>>> springs.
>> Ok. Guess I was thinking of one of the large HDAs that we took apart
>> after a crash, back in my college days. It definitely had springs -
>>
Dan wrote:
> At 4:56 PM -0400 10/23/2008, 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
On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Dan wrote:
> Not sure why I thought it was a stepper motor.
Steppers were used in the first generation MFM and SCSI drives
(ST-225, for example), but most second generation and all third
generation adopted stepless "voice-coil" motors.
Once IBM proved the so-c
On Oct 23, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> Next time you get a dead HDD, tear it down. Good info on how drives
> are made nowadays,and you get two of the strongest damn refrigerator
> magnets you'll ever need. I have a hdd magnet on my fridge holding up
> about 15 pages of recipes.
The
On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Dan wrote:
>> It's done by a voice-coil "motor", not a stepper motor, and no
>> springs.
>
> Ok. Guess I was thinking of one of the large HDAs that we took apart
> after a crash, back in my college days. It definitely had springs -
> two of 'em on each arm.
Next
At 2:37 PM -0700 10/23/2008, PeterH wrote:
>On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Dan wrote:
> > Each set of heads is on an arm, whoze positioning is *critical* --
>> the head has to line up exactly over the track, or it fails to read
>> or write the data correctly. It's done with a step motor and
>>
On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Dan wrote:
> Each set of heads is on an arm, whoze positioning is *critical* --
> the head has to line up exactly over the track, or it fails to read
> or write the data correctly. It's done with a step motor and
> springs.
It's done by a voice-coil "motor", not a
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
At 4:56 PM -0400 10/23/2008, 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?
Not my
On Oct 23, 2008, at 3:47 PM, g3-5-list group wrote:
>
> == 4 of 4 ==
> Date: Thurs, Oct 23 2008 12:07 pm
> From: Dan
>
>
> At 10:09 AM -0700 10/23/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Drive orientations hasn't really mattered since the early 90's. The
>> only thing to be aware of is if there's a cool
At 10:09 AM -0700 10/23/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>
>Drive orientations hasn't really mattered since the early 90's. The
>only thing to be aware of is if there's a cooling fan be sure not to
>block it, and make sure it's stable in your chosen orientation.
I'm still paranoid about perfect head a
At 10:09 AM -0700 10/23/08, Bruce Johnson posted:
> On Oct 23, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Steve R wrote:
>
>> this
>> manufacturer has never even released a jpg showing a vertical drive.
>> Are there some drives that should not be vertical or can I safely
>> ass-u-me that drives less than 5 years old
On Oct 23, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Steve R wrote:
> this
> manufacturer has never even released a jpg showing a vertical drive.
> 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?
Drive orien
I recall we had a discussion on optical devices being horizontal v.
vertical but can't recall whether hard drives were included in the
discussion. Having just added a new external hard drive (LaCie
Porsche finish, very shiny and beautiful) to my setup, I'm wanting to
move my NAS/USB external t
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