hang that hard drive
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I bought an external hard drive[^] - which is great but contains an annoyingly noisy fan for forced ventilation. Contained is a Hitachi Deskstar drive. Like most hard drives, this is only specified for horicontal use, or vertical use "on the side". I would like to hang it, or stand it up on the IDE connector (not physically, but orientiation-wise) - the idea being to allow for convection to flow freely without the noisy little bugger. Has anyone tried using hard drives in this orientation before? Good idea? Bad idea? Thanks.