good for my Hard Drive?

[FerrariF50]

i have a spare Maxtor hard drive I put in but when I got the drive about 4 years ago I must of left the drive rails in the other computer when I trashed it... So the Hard drive sits Chip side down on the metel case of my computer....


here is a picture of it

[Wa11y]

I've done worse. Just left them hanging in the case for a day or two, because we were screwing around with various things. Didn't kill anything. As long as no chips are shorting out, it should be no problem. And the PCBs on the bottom of hard drives are usually recessed.

[FerrariF50]

I used to leave my maxtor hanging in the case but it got in the way.....But everything is ok now I installed the hard drive cooler for my ibm drive.

[Wa11y]

As long as all the connections are still tight, it should be no problem. You usually only have to worry when the connections start to get loose.

[XprincoX]

LoL and watchout for biggo dustballs building up :D

[FerrariF50]

Originally posted by Xprincox
LoL and watchout for biggo dustballs building up :D


lol I have a few allready

[batboy]

Maybe set the drive on a piece of cardboard to help protect it?

[FerrariF50]

Well this is no longer a problem now as I set the drive in a drive Tray and I moved the Ibm drive where the Maxtor was...And the Ibm is on the drive rails with the hard drive cooler blowing air ontop of it.

[jbell]

Originally posted by batboy
Maybe set the drive on a piece of cardboard to help protect it?

wrap it with static mat first!

[jbell]

Originally posted by FerrariF50
i have a spare Maxtor hard drive I put in but when I got the drive about 4 years ago I must of left the drive rails in the other computer when I trashed it... So the Hard drive sits Chip side down on the metel case of my computer....


here is a picture of it

Tie your cables up - you'll get much ebtter airflow...