Subject: Re: Traveling w/ hardware
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 21:15:26 AKST
I wouldn't trust the airlines with it. Bad experiences. Brought up a box
in luggage from CA with a good 4" packing on all sides - had to replace
all drives when I got here.
Why not use some factory packing and ship it down UPS or FedEx (even
US-snail). I have a Fujitsu and a Maxtor box. You can have either or
both. Ea. have about 1" of anti-static foam on all sides.
Personally after my last experience I would enclose these boxes inside
of another box with more packing.
Maybe there's someone with better facts, but I think most newer drives
automatically park during shutdown.
Jim
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 18:27, 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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