Subject: Re: Traveling w/ hardware
From: Jim (jwadell@gci.net)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 18:27:55 AKST
larry collier wrote:
> Point taken. I'd assumed a back up.
>
> Larry
>
> 1/2/2002 11:01:36 PM, civileme <civileme@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >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
> >
> >
> >
One of the things we all tend to forget as amateurs is how much we and our
companies spend in our professional lives on backups (spoken like the guy who has
to maintain the backup system at work!). When you think about the new whizz-bang
box, consider the price of a real, ready for prime time tape drive. They can be
had on the auction boards for "not that much". Then get into the routine (howz
about a cron job) of daily,weekly, and monthly backups.
How about offsite storage? Your desk drawer at work, or a safe deposit box will
do nicely. A compadre set his house on fire with a dryer a few months ago. He had
been building a disaster recovery plan for a client, and decided to try it out
himself. He still has a business and is prospering as a result!
<end rant>
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