Re: Traveling w/ hardware


Subject: Re: Traveling w/ hardware
From: James Bagley Jr. (james@thelostnet.net)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 17:37:14 AKST


I haven't had any trouble traveling with my laptop, but a plain disk drive
may look a bit more suspicious. I have not had any trouble shipping disk
drives as they are built to withstand some pretty impressive G forces.
Either way, backing up your important data to a tape or CD would be a good
idea IMO.

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, James Gibson 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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