SSD upside down?

haddows101 · 6 Oct 2011 at 14:34

right guys, i know its a silly question as im 100% sure it would be fine....

My crusial M4 128gb arrived today, my mount i have for the CM 690II is already there. The ssd has a raised platform so for it to fit snug i have to set it upside down.

I just wanna see if any1 had/knows/has issues.

Cheers.

Surveyor · 6 Oct 2011 at 14:42

You can fit it anyway you like.

Upside down, on its side, at a jaunty angle etc.

Whatever works best in your PC.

haddows101 · 6 Oct 2011 at 15:31

yeh, thought so

thanks for clearin it for me

IvanDobskey · 6 Oct 2011 at 16:51

No moving parts in an SSD, so you don't even really need to fix it down. Put it anywhere you like, within reason

tigerstyle · 7 Oct 2011 at 03:32

Surveyor said:
You can fit it anyway you like.

Upside down, on its side, at a jaunty angle etc.

Whatever works best in your PC.

Same for a HDD

bremen1874 · 7 Oct 2011 at 04:12

tigerstyle said:
Same for a HDD

Unless something has recently changed this just isn't true (the jaunty angle part).

tigerstyle · 7 Oct 2011 at 15:09

bremen1874 said:
Unless something has recently changed this just isn't true (the jaunty angle part).

Go on, why not?

http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=21533

Justintime · 7 Oct 2011 at 18:01

Yea i've seen pretty much every kind of orientation in OEM cases to know it really dosen't matter anymore lol.

Jokester · 7 Oct 2011 at 18:02

I just have mine loose in the lower compartment of my TJ07.

djkav · 7 Oct 2011 at 19:50

bremen1874 said:
Unless something has recently changed this just isn't true (the jaunty angle part).

I thought the platers and heads were in a sealed vacuum inside the housing. HDDs can sit at any angle as long as you don't move them whilst they're spinning.

bremen1874 · 7 Oct 2011 at 20:03

The limitations on drive mounting angles may have gone. There was a time when the only recommend mounting angles were square to the ground. I’ve never bothered to check whether this is still the case. All the computers I’ve ever dealt with have mounted their drives square on so it’s never been an issue.

Drives are full of (very clean) fresh air. If you tried to run a drive in a vacuum the heads would crash into the platters.

Gammawolf · 7 Oct 2011 at 21:13

djkav said:
I thought the platers and heads were in a sealed vacuum inside the housing. HDDs can sit at any angle as long as you don't move them whilst they're spinning.

If you look on the HDD there's an air pressure equalization hole. This enables the read heads to float on a cushion of air over a range of altitudes and perform optimally.

tigerstyle · 8 Oct 2011 at 03:14

bremen1874 said:
If you tried to run a drive in a vacuum the heads would crash into the platters.

I don't think that's how vacuums work. The force that would cause that is mavity, and luckily where we live isn't strong enough to have any affect ot he drive heads.

bremen1874 · 8 Oct 2011 at 03:17

tigerstyle said:
I don't think that's how vacuums work. The force that would cause that is mavity, and luckily where we live isn't strong enough to have any affect ot he drive heads.

HDD drive heads 'fly' over the platters on a cushion of air. If there’s no air they can’t fly and nasty scraping noises would occur.

Fourstar · 8 Oct 2011 at 09:34

tigerstyle said:
I don't think that's how vacuums work. The force that would cause that is mavity, and luckily where we live isn't strong enough to have any affect ot he drive heads.

Here is a longer description. I would look for an article which mentions "ground effect" which I believe is the phenomenon being exploited but I'm supposed to be leaving the house not reading the forums!

Finally, because the density of data is so high on modern drives — up to 625 billion bits (78GB) per square inch on a 1TB platter — the head must float just 5 or 10 nanometers above the magnetic regions. Instead of trying to machine a fixed head that hangs 10nm above the platters, modern hard drive heads float on a layer of air that’s created by the rotation of the drive. This technique is self-correcting: if the head rises too much, it loses buoyancy and falls back down to its “floating height.” Just so you have some idea of how close a head flies over a hard drive platter: 10nm is three times smaller than the transistors used in the latest computer processors — and as hard drive density increases, the floating height will only get lower.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/88078-how-a-hard-drive-works