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Date:      Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:18:02 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
Cc:        "aryeh.friedman@gmail.com" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case
Message-ID:  <20090104161802.GA68124@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A810D6F-CB4A-41C0-90DC-D6F8EE192C36@boosten.org>
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On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:48:30PM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4 jan 2009, at 14:35, "Glen Barber" <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com 
> > >
> >> Small related question is there any long term harm to laying a disk  
> >> on
> >> it's side (i.e. it lays flat when the tower is up right but on it's  
> >> side
> >> squeezed into a rack)
> >>
> >
> > The ideal answer is 'no'.  The 'safe' answer is 'possibly'.  In other
> > words, I wouldn't do it personally, but I don't expect it to cause
> > harm.  I'd suspect it'd be more succeptible to a head crash in a
> > vertical position.
> >
> >
> 
> Most drives in an drive array are on their side, seems not to be any  
> problem.

And if you ask the various harddisk manufacturers they will say "It will
work fine. No problem." when asked if it matters if a disk is mounted
horisontally or vertically or upside down.



-- 
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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