Is it better to have a hard drive horizontally or vertically? [closed]

Posted by Roderick M. on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Roderick M.
Published on 2010-02-22T11:30:47Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 8:03 UTC
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Does vertical position affect hard drive?

This may be a silly question, but I have an external HDD which has a platform to keep it vertically.

My question is, does it make any problem to have it like that? Regarding the internal operation of the it I mean.

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