It looks like the one they show has the internal drives mounted "flat" -- they obviously figured out that they could fit more if they put them on edge.

Somewhere in the back of my mind I think I remember reading somewhere that hard drives are happy being mounted flat, or at a 90 degree angle ("on edge") but not anything in between. However, that doesn't seem reasonable when you consider thrust and side loadings on the spindle drive bearings.

Is it considered acceptable to mount hard drives on edge?

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