Position of an external hard drive
Today I bought myself a Lacie 250GB External HD. My question is, does the position of the hard drive matter? Does it need to be horizontal, or can it also be used (and not damaged) when positioned vertically?
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That's the one, yes. You have it too?
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Any modern hard drive can be used vertically, horizontally, on its face or upside down. You can even shake them violently during read and writes these days and not cause any damage since head locking and other safety measures virtually protects drives from head crashes.
Position the drive in any orientation you wish, it won't hurt anything. |
any position is fine. just keep it off of a carpet or other static prone surface, and keep it away from heat vents and windows. Heat and electrical charges will mess up external hard drives. I have an idiot friend who actually put his drive on his subwoofer and wondered why he had to reformat it.
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So far I have no problems, and even when transferring files it's pretty cold. I just hear an occasional click though. |
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It's been about 2 months I'd say now since I last switched it off.
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Also, do you hear those clicks I mentioned? |
Oh sorry ;_;
I got it nearly 6 months ago now, and I've never noticed any clicks from mine. I know what clicks you're on about, my internal actually does it sometimes, and has since I got it 1year+ ago, but is still fine and is rated 100% fitness by speedfan. I wouldn't worry about it. |
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This one speaks the truth ... just please don't go shaking your HDs to see if they don't die from it... |
I really couldn't say why failing drives make those weird noises so I did a quick search. Heres a site that lets you download 6 wav files from failing drives and tells what each noise meant
http://www.thenetworkadministrator.c...gharddrive.htm |
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