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The USB symbol goes on top, IIRC. Edit: ninja'd by an enormous amount of people elsewhere in the thread, gah.

• qup 3y ago
  This is not always true, and not all ports are horizontal anyway.
  • edgedetector 3y ago
    Isn't it part of the standard?
    • Talanes 3y ago
      In relation to the PCB, so if they're horizontally mounted onto the motherboard, you end up with vertical slots on the back of a standard tower.
    • askvictor 3y ago
      Yes. Does everyone follow the standard? No. Including big names that prefer to have their logo facing up.
• ngcc_hk 3y ago
  Apple and many others need to be reverse always. There is no top.
• Moru 3y ago
  Vertically aligned motherboards are hard to judge what "up" is. Usually up is where the expansion boards are plugged in. But not all computer users know how a computer looks inside.
• denton-scratch 3y ago
  > The USB symbol goes on top, IIRC. For some values of "top"; that is, some device manufacturers install the socket upside-down.
• Suppafly 3y ago
  It doesn't help if you've trying to do it totally blind, but the 2 open square holes go on top, once I figured that out I've never had any issues plugging them in correctly. The only one I have issues with is my keyboard because the pcb in the plug is black and the it's a little hard to tell which side is the open holes and which side is the black pcb.