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Mukii TransImp enclosu HD upside down
I am using a Mukii TransImp enclosure for a 2.5" laptop drive. Other
than the gray lettering, it is identical in appearance to http://www.dx.com/p/mukii-transimp-t...6#.VAVArGMkirE, except that mine has an eSATA interface. The left edge of the housing comes off to reveal a plug-in interface. The problem is that if I lay the enclosure down flat, the HD is upside down from its orientation in the laptop. Are current day HDs for laptops impervious to the orientation, or will this be "problematic" in any way? |
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Mukii TransImp enclosu HD upside down
wrote I am using a Mukii TransImp enclosure for a 2.5" laptop drive. Other than the gray lettering, it is identical in appearance to http://www.dx.com/p/mukii-transimp-t...6#.VAVArGMkirE, except that mine has an eSATA interface. The left edge of the housing comes off to reveal a plug-in interface. The problem is that if I lay the enclosure down flat, the HD is upside down from its orientation in the laptop. Are current day HDs for laptops impervious to the orientation, The WD and Seagate datasheets don't say anything about it. Cant find the Toshiba ones. or will this be "problematic" in any way? No. |
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Rod, Robert,
Thanks for the reassurance of the insensitivity of the HD to the physical orientation. Eery how my basic knowledge is so obsolete. When I was in high school (or was it university?), the heads glided on a film of air. Presumably from the velocity at which the surface of the disk moved. |
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On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 9:31:38 AM UTC-4, Robert Nichols
wrote: On 09/02/2014 10:39 PM, andymhancockATgmailDOTcom wrote: Eery how my basic knowledge is so obsolete. When I was in high school (or was it university?), the heads glided on a film of air. Presumably from the velocity at which the surface of the disk moved. They still do. That film is just a lot thinner than it used to be. If air is what is keeping the head from landing on the surface, it means there's vertical freedom of movement. Wouldn't turning it upside cause the head to fall further away from the surface, thus weakening the signal detection? |
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Robert Nichols wrote andymhancockATgmailDOTcom wrote Eery how my basic knowledge is so obsolete. When I was in high school (or was it university?), the heads glided on a film of air. Presumably from the velocity at which the surface of the disk moved. They still do. That film is just a lot thinner than it used to be. If air is what is keeping the head from landing on the surface, No if about it. it means there's vertical freedom of movement. Corse there is. Wouldn't turning it upside cause the head to fall further away from the surface, No, because the head is held against the surface by the metal that the head is mounted on. thus weakening the signal detection? No. Many drives have a head on each side of the platter, so turning the drive upside down just sees the other head below the platter and the other one above it. |
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Thank you Mark, Rod, & Arno.
It amazes me that a film of air is able to keep the head off the surface despite the fact that a spring is pressing the head against the surface. |
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