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Brashen

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I just bought 2 1TB WD Caviar Green HDs and I'm going to travel soon what precautions should I take to insure they arrive safely, and do the rays in the baggage checking machines affect the in any way? These are OEM so they did not come in a box by themselves so I've devised my own box and filled it up with cotton balls and shredded paper.

Any tips will be most appreciated thanks!!
 
Put them in anti static bags before they go in a box full of paper and cotton balls. Seeing as how my laptop has made it through the x-ray machine at the airport a number of times, I can't see it hurting your drives. Make sure they are packaged well and do not move around. That's about all I can think of.
 
Thanks dude for the help!! They;re in their original bags as I havent opened them yet so that's covered. Thanks again!!
 
Xrays will not affect magnetic media. Only optical film. And even then, the power used in airport xrays prolly wont fog it. They just tell you to remove it for liability reasons.

As long as your drives have a little padding on each side, you are fine. Drives nowadays have a non running shock spec of like 100 G's plus. In other words, they can survive a plane crash that you would not.

Now, I just bought 3 of those same model drives last week, and 1 of the 3 was DOA.

GOOD LUCK! ;)

Don
 
DonDon why would you tell me that you evil man!! I also have no way o check if my drives are DOA or not as the PC I'm on still uses IDE cables!!
 
Sorry, but feces does occur sometimes.

Maybe I was just unlucky.

I think they have a 3 year warranty from WD though.

Don
 
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