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Re: Delivering Hard disks via post (OT?)
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- Subject: Re: Delivering Hard disks via post (OT?)
- From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:08:18 -0000
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>
>I'm about to buy a hard disk on-line, but the thing that worries me is
the
>shipping process of these things.
>
>I can just imaging it being thrown into the back of a van with the
heads
>crashing all over the platters!
>
>Are my fears unfounded?
>
Yeah, pretty much totally! - Have you ever noticed in the small print of
the
drive specs there are figures quoted for "operating shock rating"
and
"non-operating shock rating", expressed in G...
Well I can't remember what typical figures are, but I do recall reading
some
time back, that an average figure for non-operating shock rating equates to
the bare drive being dropped from a height of 1 metre onto a solid concrete
floor! - and that's without any packaging or protection around it!
Seriously, in non-operating mode, where the heads are parked well away from
the data surfaces of the platters, they are really quite surprisingly
robust! - add the to that the 6-inch layer of foam that will packed all
round it during shipping,- I don't think you need worry!
I have received several drives through the post, and have never had a
single
problem...
Paul G.
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