Computers & Technology

Install Hard Drives by Side, Upside-Down, Regular and Vertical Position Does mounting a hard disk drive on its side or even upside-down affects its lifespan or reliability? According to every drive manufacturer, it’s perfectly acceptable to mount a hard disk drive in any orientation as long as it’s not tilted and has sufficient cooling. Each drive manufacturer says on the subject of drive mounting: Seagate: “All Seagate and Maxtor-brand hard drives can be fitted sideways or upside down. As long as they are not moved during use and get enough cooling, it is irrelevant in which direction they are mounted.” Western Digital: “The drive can be mounted sideways, on end, or even upside down as long as the mounting screws are used properly.” HGST: “Hitachi Deskstar drive can be mounted with any side or end vertical or horizontal. Do not mount the drive in a tilted position.” So it’s perfectly fine to mount a hard disk drive upside down, vertical, or on either ...

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RAID AND LVM RAID 1.     RAID is used for redundancy. 2.     A RAID device is a physical grouping of disk devices in order to create a logical presentation of one device to an Operating System for redundancy or performance or a combination of the two. 3.     RAID is a way to create a redundant or striped block device with redundancy using other physical block devices. 4.     RAID is either a software or a hardware technique to create data storage redundancy across multiple block devices based on required RAID levels. 5.     RAID is NOT any kind of Data backup solution. Its a solution to prevent one of the SPOFs (Single Point of Failure) i.e. DISK failure. By configuring RAID you are just providing an emergency substitute for the Primary disk. It NEVER means that you have configured DATA backup. LVM 1.     LVM is a way in which you partition the hard di...