Hardrive mounting orientation

[Thor]

Hello,

Long story short, building a NAS box ran out of hardrive bays, can I mount a hardrive sideways?
Since it's a spinning disk of death I am not totally convince this is a good idea :/
Like this:

 

[.QQ.]

According to the manufacturers, it doesn't make a difference.

 

[ponder]

Yes it's fine.

 

[MickZA]

That's the way they're mounted in a HP micro-server.

 

[Thor]

Cool, i sort of knew it will be fine, but when i started thinking about the disks etc my mind went all technical. Thanks for the confirmation guys

 

[Thor]

Yes it's fine.

Mother of noodle sticks, well done on that 50K post count. Good Lawrd, I have a long way to go.

 

[Pitbull]

Hello,

Long story short, building a NAS box ran out of hardrive bays, can I mount a hardrive sideways?
Since it's a spinning disk of death I am not totally convince this is a good idea :/
Like this:

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If SSD. Just put them wherever there is space They don't have moving parts. I have seen drives placed between the cable management plate and the cover before

 

[Thor]

If SSD. Just put them wherever there is space They don't have moving parts. I have seen drives placed between the cable management plate and the cover before

No SSD are the dream I mount those badboys on the top of my case all 3 available sides of the psu.

And then 1 SSD mounted per harddrive. Like you mount the SSD on the harddrive hahaha.

But I dont have that many SSDs

 

[ponder]

Mother of noodle sticks, well done on that 50K post count. Good Lawrd, I have a long way to go.

Feck I missed that, wonder which post that was.

Edit: Counted back and it was this one http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...-admin-fee?p=15528454&viewfull=1#post15528454

 

[Thor]

Feck I missed that, wonder which post that was.

Edit: Counted back and it was this one http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...-admin-fee?p=15528454&viewfull=1#post15528454

Kept it classy, kept it under the radar, not bad

 

[Rickster]

The same reason I never put my PS2, PS3 on its side. I always think the bearings will take more strain.

 

[Thor]

The same reason I never put my PS2, PS3 on its side. I always think the bearings will take more strain.

This! Yoh I was dead cautious with my consoles and that is now being carried over to this build

 

[AntiGanda]

Mmmm... It's a spinning disk, so physical forces will affect it, surely?

I would mount it in the 'flat' position.

 

[ponder]

Mmmm... It's a spinning disk, so physical forces will affect it, surely?

I would mount it in the 'flat' position.

Makes no difference whether spinning on the horizontal or vertical axis.

 

[garyc]

Have a microserver with four disks sitting vertically on their sides. It has been running for a few years without a problem.

 

[Pitbull]

Mmmm... It's a spinning disk, so physical forces will affect it, surely?

I would mount it in the 'flat' position.

When Spinning the force is directed to the outside of the spinning disc. Meaning no matter what rotation it's in the force exerted on the bearings are the same.

 

[Progenix Oj101]

The manufacturer only advises against it not being flat on one axis, but I've personally known drives to hang at an angle from their IDE/molex connectors and work just fine for well over a decade.

 

[P924]

I have never heard of a harddrive with a bearing failure...

 

[tcofran]

Hello,

Long story short, building a NAS box ran out of hardrive bays, can I mount a hardrive sideways?
Since it's a spinning disk of death I am not totally convince this is a good idea :/

Will all the data not go and gather at the bottom of the platter ?

 

[MickZA]

I have never heard of a harddrive with a bearing failure...

I replaced some of the 5.25" and early 3.5" MFM HDDs because of the noise they made although they were still OK otherwise ... long time ago though

... hard to believe we paid about the same for a 20MB HDD back then as we do for a 1TB these days.