Subject: Re: Traveling w/ hardware
From: larry collier (lcollier@ak.net)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 00:55:02 AKST
Point taken. I'd assumed a back up.
Larry
1/2/2002 11:01:36 PM, civileme <civileme@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
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>On Wednesday 02 January 2002 10:23 pm, larry collier wrote:
>> 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
>You can insure them for enough to compensate yourself for a few year's time
>building the data? I lost six years worth of writing once, and no amount of
>money could have compensated me for that.
>
>However you ship them, copy them to another media (at least your vital data)
>and ship it another way, and leave behind some copies with a trusted friend,
>and ask someone else to keep another copy and....
>
>The point is, if the disk melts into a puddle, will you want to jump into the
>puddle?
>
>Civileme
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