[ale] mounting drives vertically

[hbbs at comcast.net]

If you go back in time to the Pentium/PII era, there was a lot more vertical drive mounting, but these days, no one makes "flat" cases anymore, it seems.

> I appreciate all the input from folks on this issue.  It appears that 
> vertically or horizontally is fine.
> 
> But, I'll pose the question, this is the first PC I've seen that has had 
> vertically mounted hard drives.  Virtually the rest of the hardware I've 
> seen has them mounted horizontally, regardless of the case configuration 
> (desktop/tower).
> 
> This begs the question.  It appears that, for the most part, computer 
> companies go to great lengths to engineer cases so that the drives are 
> horizontal.  Must be a reason for this, no?
> 
> FYI, when I put the computer in question back together, I installed the 
> drive in a different location where it will be horizontal.
> 
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