[DANIEL2145]

Has anybody here used your X-Box sideways like the new playstaions are able to. I barely have room for one in my room to make everything look nice, so hopefully I'm not messing anything up here.

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[Apocolypse]

ummm.... no, dont do it

 

[ziadel]

you CAN do it, but your shortening the life of the hardrive...

 

[Reyndogg]

why would that reduce HDD service-life? :confused

 

[Krabill]

I would suspect that if you stood it up on it's side, you wouldn't be able to get a cd into it. I mean it just sits in the tray, right? :confused

 

[MAAH STUD]

Don't do it with the Playstation either
It will shorten the life of the laser GREATLY
I have read many things about this and had it happen to a friend who used his less than mine

Peace Out

 

[Ian]

A harddrive doesn't care which way it's mounted... Why would it reduce anything?

 

[Citadel650]

Ian said:
A harddrive doesn't care which way it's mounted...

I got a buddy that is the same exact way.

 

[azoomm]

Reyndogg said:
why would that reduce HDD service-life? :confused

+1 :confused

 

[pinniger]

I'm guessing the motor that moves the head of the HD would have to work harder moving the weight of the the head up and down instead of side to side. Other than that, I can't think of a reason it would be any worse for the HD

 

[The-Bone]

Do you people realize how many desktop pc (both desktop and mini tower case) and servers have drives mounted both horizontal and vertical? Sounds like a bunch of :bs

 

[Clay]

Yeah, it won't affect the hard drive. I work in rooms with THOUSANDS of servers and most of the RAID 5 arrays have the drives going in sideways. Now the idea about the laser...I don't know. :shrug

 

[Rsv1000R]

poor cooling on a particular axis could cause a problem, Heat is the main thing that will reduce component life, but that would be about the only thing I can think of.

 

[inanima]

my PS 2 is on it's side...
we've had computers at work running on theri sides all day long.
What's the difference?

 

[miztress6]

There are 2 different drives they put in X boxes myth has it one has lower perfromance and life span other than that the only problem you will run into is the pain in the ass it will be trying to load the disc in properly without it popping out and if it moves out of place while spinning. So you could be very involved in a game of Madden, Fable, or Halo and it will stick ....time to reboot and start over

 

[Rsv1000R]

miztress6 said:
other than that the only problem you will run into is the pain in the ass it will be trying to load the disc in properly without it popping out and if it moves out of place while spinning.

Do they have the little tab's you can flip out on each corner of the disk tray? If they do, you can set the bottom 2 to hold the disk in.

 

[The-Bone]

usually it moving out of place while spinning isn't an issue since its spun from the center of the disc.

 

[miztress6]

usually it moving out of place while spinning isn't an issue since its spun from the center of the disc.

Not when the damn thing lifts upward in the tray and slides sideways BONE HEAD :redflip

RSV I haven't seen the tabs on either one of ours I know what your talking about my PC's have em but I haven't seen them on the Xbox but I'm lazy I sit on the couch and say "Babe put the Tiger woods game in" or "Babe let's play Ghost Recon now" :laughing

 

[The-Bone]

miztress6 said:
Not when the damn thing lifts upward in the tray and slides sideways BONE HEAD :redflip

Sorry I don't have and have never owned an X-Box but my statement still stands that the CD's are spun from the center which is the reason why there is a hole. What's the excuse for you hole and does it see as much use? :redflip

 

[Swan]

Sideways X-Box?

Wouldn't that be called a Y-Box?