Perpendicular Hard Drives

Zernhelt · June 2007

I'm thinking about buying a new hard drive for my computer, and I'm thinking about looking at perpendicular hard drives. Is there any down side to these? I've already decided on buying a 500 GB hard drive, so I'm really looking at perpendicular mostly because it's a new technology that I want to try.

Sk1nnyMan · June 2007

I see no reason why not, it is just a natural evolution of the read-write head on a hard disk, there are no other major hard disk differences.

tech_hunter · June 2007

I have been using a 320 gig perpendicular drive for about 2 years now no problems and works great, this is a sata drive too so pretty snappy.

Sinheliopistostopheles · June 2007

Can putting a regular harddrive on it's side kill it completely?

stigweard · June 2007

No, you can mount hard drives however you want. It is changing the angle of them while they are in motion that is dangerous. They are referring to the technology inside the drive, not how they are mounted.

Bionic Monkey · June 2007

I've been running two perpendicular 500 gig drives for about two months now with zero issues. Well... zero issues once I actually got them up and running. Installation was a bitch, but only because they're SATA, and I'm running a four-year-old motherboard.