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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by lmm on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @05:47AM (#9575309)
Optical drives work on their side or upside down, which suggests to me that they'd be fine.
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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by kaybe on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @07:32AM (#9575613)
But how long will they work compared to the right way up? I can imagine that running it on the side will have unequal distribution of forces and thus wear for example.
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Re:Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Coul... by lmm on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @09:36AM (#9576170)
There are consumer products that have them mounted sideways (e.g. I think one of the xboxes?), so it seems like they're reliable enough for consumer electronics standards.
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