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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!dcs.ed.ac.uk!gst
  2. From: gst@dcs.ed.ac.uk (George Taylor)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.electronics
  4. Subject: hard disk orientation
  5. Message-ID: <C1GHnF.DGL@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 10:11:38 GMT
  7. Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin)
  8. Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
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  11. Could anyone tell me if running a hard disk vertically instead of horizontally
  12. (e.g.using a desktop machine on it's side like a 'tower' system)
  13. is likely to decrease it's lifetime?
  14.  
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  16. George
  17.