Subject: Re: Traveling w/ hardware
From: larry collier (lcollier@ak.net)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 22:23:58 AKST
Modern drives automatically park the heads with power off. The last time I looked it up (5 years ago at least) the
unpowered shock limit was 200 g's. In a box with bubble wrap, you could probably drop it off the plane onto the apron
without harm.
Personally I'd ship them fedex, insured. It's safer and w/o hassle.
Larry
1/2/2002 6:27:52 PM, "James Gibson" <twistedhammer@subdimension.com> wrote:
>
>As some of you may know, I'm moving to California later this month
>(the 23rd)... I'll be flying down, and shipping my stuff down later, but
>I was thinking of carrying my hard-drive from my main box with me
>along with some of the cards from that machine. Not trusting
>anyone to NOT drop my bags exorbitant distances, I was hoping to
>carry these on the plane in my carry-on. My question is this: I've
>heard tales of 'The New Order' airport security, and wondered if I'm
>just asking for endless hassles here.. you can't exactly prove that
>a hard-drive works (unless you pack a power supply too I guess)..
>anyone have some words from the wise here?
>
>And on another tack, if I have to ship these in my checked
>baggage or via FedHex, how do I make sure the heads on my HDs
>are parked where they can't clatter against the platters when some
>{"pimply 16 year old","badly engineering machine","disgruntled 50
>year old"} drops my cardboard box 10 feet onto concrete?
>
>
>James Gibson
>twistedhammer@subdimension.com
>
>
>
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