Upside down hard drive

[Mrvile]

My PSU is upside down (BTX case), so the HDD power cables and even data cables have to all be flipped upside down since the motherboard is also upside down. Flipping the hard drive upside down would fix everything, but will this do anything to the hard drive? I wouldn't imagine it would (because computers run on their sides all the time), but what about upside down? Thanks.

 

[dguy6789]

I dont think it would, one time I ran a harddrive completely vertical one time, and it worked just fine.

 

[Jeff7]

As far as I know, drives can be upside down, upright, whatever (maybe not diagonal though), but that should be fine. If they aren't moved much while they're spinning, they'll be fine.

 

[biostud]

I'm pretty sure the distances inside a drive are so small that they don't rely on gravity.

 

[guidot]

All the old Dell and some Gateway machines had their hard drive mounted vertically, so I don't see any problem with it being upside down...

 

[overclock]

From Here:

You should orient the drive as shown in the picture, which may seem "upside-down". However this is not a problem since hard drives are designed to be run in any orientation as long as they are mounted either completely horizontally or vertically (not at a slant).

 

[Mrvile]

Ok thanks guys!

 

[Bonesdad]

all your data will fall off the disks.

 

[imported_Darthan]

Hard drives are actually vertically symmetrical, at least as far as the heads and platters go. Both sides of the platter are used so running it upside down is exactly like running right side up. Actually, unless you have a really really old hard drive (if it holds more than a few hundred megabytes it is guarunteed too new for this too matter) you can run your drive in any orientation and it won't matter. Even with the old drives you could run them in any orientation, you just had to never change their orientation from the one you initialized them in. Nowadays hard drives all self calibrate their head position so you never need to worry about orientation. Just don't move the drive violently when it's on because that'll cause head crashes and kill the drive.

 

[jvarszegi]

Originally posted by: biostud
I'm pretty sure the distances inside a drive are so small that they don't rely on gravity.

??? And they also don't rely on pistachio ice cream. How can a distance rely on anything?

 

[beatle]

Originally posted by: Bonesdad
all your data will fall off the disks.

That got a laugh out of me. :beer:

 

[w00t]

Originally posted by: beatle

Originally posted by: Bonesdad
all your data will fall off the disks.

That got a laugh out of me. :beer:

ya me too.

 

[imported_hopeless]

Originally posted by: overclock
From Here:

You should orient the drive as shown in the picture, which may seem "upside-down". However this is not a problem since hard drives are designed to be run in any orientation as long as they are mounted either completely horizontally or vertically (not at a slant).

Anyone know where you can get those sticker thermometers?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: jvarszegi

Originally posted by: biostud
I'm pretty sure the distances inside a drive are so small that they don't rely on gravity.

??? And they also don't rely on pistachio ice cream. How can a distance rely on anything?

I guess you've never taken a hard drive apart then.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: jvarszegi

Originally posted by: biostud
I'm pretty sure the distances inside a drive are so small that they don't rely on gravity.

??? And they also don't rely on pistachio ice cream. How can a distance rely on anything?

They do rely on "magic smoke", however. At least the non-mechanical portion of the HD.